Canadian Forces Detachment Mountain View, also CFD Mountain View, is a

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( Trenton/Mountain View Airport) located in

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, south of Belleville. It is geographically close to

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, which has administrative responsibility for the facilities.

History

World War II

The Mountain View aerodrome opened 23 June 1941 to host No. 6 Bombing and Gunnery School (6 B&GS), one of eleven bombing and gunnery schools that opened across Canada under the

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during the

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. Aircraft used included the Anson,

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, Bolingbroke, and

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. The station was later designated RCAF Station Mountain View when No. 6 B&GS was renamed the Ground Instruction School and merged with the Air Armament School at RCAF Station Trenton.

Aerodrome information

In approximately 1942 the aerodrome was listed as RCAF Aerodrome - Mountain View, Ontario at with a variation of 12 degrees west and elevation of . Three serviceable runways were listed as follows:

Postwar

The RCAF fire fighting school moved to Mountain View from Trenton in 1946, but later moved to RCAF Station Aylmer. Also in 1946, RCAF Station Mountain View became a detachment of RCAF Station Trenton. CFD Mountain View includes two recognized Federal Heritage building 1986 on the Register of the Government of Canada Heritage Buildings. * Building 77 / Hangar 1 recognized - 2003 * Building 82 / Hangar 6 recognized - 2003

Operations

The main use of CFB Trenton Mountain View Detachment is the storage and overhaul of older aircraft. This facility belongs to the Aerospace and Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron (ATESS) based at Trenton. In September 2000, 8 Wing Trenton opened the Canadian Parachute Centre's (now the Canadian Army Advanced Warfare Centre) drop zone at Mountain View. The Mountain View facility is also used by Central Region Gliding School (CRGS) for Royal Canadian Air Cadets glider training. A new 4800' gravel runway (06L/24R) was constructed in 2006 to train CC-130 Hercules aircraft crew in landing on unprepared landing strips. A CC-177 Globemaster III demonstrated similar capabilities in 2009."Globemaster III demonstrates STOL capability at Mountain View"
By Tom Philp, 5 June 2009

References

External links

Bruce Forsyth's Canadian Military History Page
Retrieved 2010-10-05
Aerospace and Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron
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