Yes, the old Airbase is about 1 minute from where I live and the Air Cadets with their gliders and tugs fly right over my townhouse all through the day , everyday, all summer. (Good thing I love planes!).
The base is about 50 kms from Trenton and about 35 kms from Mountainview. It is all about 240 KM east of Toronto.
The site is privately owned but numerous businesses are renting buildings on the site. The Air Cadets also have one of the buildings and this is where I spent 5 years of my youth.
There was some talk of a production company buying it, and some wild rumours going around, but to the best of knowledge it is still in the hands of the MacFarlands, a wealthy local family.
The problem with doing anything with the buildings is that they really were built to shoddy standards and were never meant to last this long. The military is famous for building a structure, planning on getting 10-20 years out of it, so build it accordingly, and then here were 50+ or so years later trying to do things with them. At the main base in CFB Trenton we have some buildings close to 75 years old and once they break this milestone one cannot simply do work on it anymore as it is a historical type of thing now. This poses a major problem and several buildings are slated to be destroyed prior to them hitting this 75 year mark. SOme of the buildings are over 75 years and now we are stuck with these anceint sub-standard H block stone buildings that are just not effective for what we need any longer.
The Picton base really is an oldy and the buildings are really getting run down. I don’t think anyone could do much of anything with any if the buildings at this point and if the land ever does get sold again I am sure it will mark the demise of all the structures.
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