RCAF Station Carberry

RCAF Station Carberry
IATA: none – ICAO: none
Summary
Owner/Operator	Royal Canadian Air Force
Location	Carberry, Manitoba
Built	1940
Coordinates	49°51′4.27″N 99°20′13.16″W / 49.8511861°N 99.3369889°WCoordinates: 49°51′4.27″N 99°20′13.16″W / 49.8511861°N 99.3369889°W
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 03R/33L 3,000 914 rolled gravel 03L/33R 2,600 792 rolled gravel 13R/23L 2,600 792 rolled gravel 13L/23R 2,600 792 rolled gravel 09L/27R 3,000 914 rolled gravel 09R/27L 3,000 914 rolled gravel

RCAF Station Carberry was a Second World War air training station located near Carberry, Manitoba, Canada. The Royal Air Force (RAF), opened No. 33 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) here in December 1940. As with all RAF training facilities in Canada, the station was subject to Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) administrative and operational control and formally became part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in 1942. The school closed in November 1944. The airfield was one of the few double-sided aerodromes built for wartime training with six parallel runways formed in a triangle rather than the typical three runways formed in a triangle.

After the war the station was used as a storage depot until the RCAF moved out. The site is now the location of a McCain Foods potato processing facility.

See also

• Carberry, Manitoba
• Rural Municipality of North Cypress
• Camp Hughes

External links

• Bruce Forsyth's Canadian Military History Page