Aircraft passing through the narrow Skeena River valley, which experienced weather-related difficulties, could land in emergencies.

[4] A Royal Canadian Air Cadets squadron that had their own self-sustained glider program used the facility 1975–1986.

[5] During the 1980s, artist Carl Chaplin converted a concrete bunker into a home and studio, where he produced canvases, while contemplating World War III.

[7] In 2019, members of the Vanderhoof Flying club and the BC General Aviation Association (BCGA) flew or drove in to spend a long weekend cleaning up the crumbling runway, which had not been maintained for decades but had been used occasionally by pilots willing to negotiate the overgrowth.

The volunteer work party cut down small trees growing on the runway and scraped moss to create a useable 518-metre (1,700 ft) section down the middle of the airstrip.