Weyburn Airport is located north-east of
Weyburn
Weyburn is the eleventh-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. The city has a population of 10,870. It is on the Souris River southeast of the provincial capital of Regina and is north from the North Dakota border in the United States. The n ...
,
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dak ...
, Canada at the hamlet of
North Weyburn.
History
The aerodrome was constructed in 1941 by the
Royal Canadian Air Force
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF; french: Aviation royale canadienne, ARC) is the air and space force of Canada. Its role is to "provide the Canadian Forces with relevant, responsive and effective airpower". The RCAF is one of three environm ...
(RCAF) as part of the
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. The station was home to No. 41 Service Flying Training School, and during its operation graduated 1,055 pilots and recorded more than 180,000 hours of flight time before being abandoned on 30 June 1944.
Post-war
Other uses included a children's physiological hospital in the 1950s and the home of the
Western Christian College
Western Christian College (WCC) was a private Christian college associated with the Churches of Christ located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. WCC also had a high school program which results in the overall institution being known in many cases a ...
from 1957 until 1989.
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Current use
Some of the original hangars are still in existence.
Two runways remain in operation, while runway 18/36 is abandoned.[
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See also
* List of airports in Saskatchewan
This is a list of airports in Saskatchewan. It includes all Nav Canada certified and registered water and land airports, aerodromes and heliports in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Airport names in are part of the National Airports System ...
* RCAF Station Weyburn
RCAF Station Weyburn was located north-east of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada at the hamlet of North Weyburn and was constructed in 1941 by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. The Statio ...
References
External links
City of Weyburn Services
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Certified airports in Saskatchewan
Airports established in 1941
Airports of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Weyburn No. 67, Saskatchewan
Weyburn