Calgary air force stations

Several air force stations and other establishments, many of them training facilities, operated in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s.

In 1935 the RCAF constructed a landing field on a section of the Canadian Army's Currie Barracks located in southwest Calgary.

During the Second World War, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) established No.

RCAF Station Lincoln Park was closed in 1964, but portions of the base were retained to house military families.

The former hangar line at Lincoln Park was taken over by the various Army field units garrisoned at CFB Calgary.

The remaining property was sold to ATCO, the City of Calgary and Mount Royal College.

Six runways were listed as follows:[4]: 83 The primary relief landing field (R1) for No.3 SFTS was located near the community of Airdrie, Alberta.

The secondary relief landing field (R2) for No.3 SFTS was located near the community of Inverlake, Alberta.

37 SFTS was subject to RCAF administrative and operational control and formally became part of the BCATP in 1942.

[3] The flying squadron of No.2 WS operated from an aerodrome located near the community of Shepard, Alberta.

The airborne portion of wireless operator training was conducted in de Havilland Tiger Moths, Fleet Forts and North American Harvards.

4 Training Command Headquarters was responsible for BCATP operations in Alberta, British Columbia, and much of Saskatchewan.