RCAF station Vulcan

I have heard about Picton Steve… Hmm this month may see us at trenton and mountainview with picton being a stones throw away………

Somebody oughta write a coffee-table/historical book on that subject. Hm. Maybe that someone oughta be me. :rolleyes:

Cheers

S.

What are you doing wasting time here? Get on with it. 🙂

Hi Peter–

Nice pix; the one with the sun setting “through” the old BCATP hangar is suitably spooky, bit of a Stephen King aspect to it! I enjoy visiting old airfields, it’s usually a rather melancholy experience. Flew over the amazingly intact Picton station eight years ago; that would have to be the choice for a visit at ground level, virtually every building is still there (or at least was as of a couple years ago), lost in time. Most of the others I’ve visited are in the process of disappearing, but those can be the spookiest. Old #16 SFTS at Hagersville, now host to a lumber company, has eight or nine hangars still in reasonable shape, but the “groundside” portion of the base is just overgrown roadways and ghostly foundations. Sometimes, though, an old airfield will make a reappearance as…an airfield, like Dunnville (#6 SFTS) did, to my delight, a few years back after decades as a turkey farm! Then there’s the Kohler satellite field, now a dragstrip; the Gananoque one with its ghostly lone hangar in the middle of nowhere, half-full of a magnificent ex-RCAF Canso; and, well, the old Malton base that’s now Pearson International Airport! Funny the divergent fates of old airfields. Somebody oughta write a coffee-table/historical book on that subject. Hm. Maybe that someone oughta be me. :rolleyes:

Cheers

S.

Has anyone visited old airbases in Canada??

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