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RCAF Station Ottawa – Uplands

I would like to extend a special thank you to Neil Hemstad for providing so many of the links and photos for this page.

General Information

Location/Base: Uplands

Province: Ontario

Years in Use: 1940-

Units:

No 2 Service Flying Training School
- Aircraft flown:
  - Harvard
Maintenance Command 1 Oct ’45- Mar ’47
No 416 (Fighter) Sqn end ’50-Sep ’52
No 439 (Fighter) Sqn Sep ’51-Jun ’52
No 434 (Fighter) Sqn Jul ’52-’53
No 422 (Fighter) Sqn ’52-’53
No 445 (Fighter) Sqn ’53-’54???
No 428 (Fighter) Sqn Jun ’54-61
No 410 (Fighter) Sqn ’53??-
No 412 (Transport) Sqn [1 Apr ’58]
Det From No 408 (Transport) Sqn
No 3 Air Movements Unit
Central Experimental and Proving Establishment
AFHQ Jet Training Flight
No 436 (T) Sqn [1 Feb ’68]
Primary Relief Landing Field – Carp
Secondary Relief Landing Field – Edwards

RCAF Aerodrome Ottawa (Uplands), Ontario.
Image from the
RCAF Pilots Manual of Aerodromes and Seaplane Bases
circa 1942.

Aircraft Types:

Unknown Unit
- Mustangs
- Sabres
- Voodoos
- T-33
410 Sqn
- CF-100
412 Sqn
- C-5
- Comet I-A
- Cosmopolitan
- Dakota
- North Star
- Falcon
428 Sqn
- CF-100
436 Sqn
- C-130E Hurculese

Commanding Officers:

Group Captain W.L. Gillespie ?’63?

Financial Impact:

Date/Reason for Closure

Site Evolution

The Publication On Track…the Pilot’s Air Travel Guide (First Annual Edition – 1978) lists the Aerodrome as “Ottawa Intl” – See photos on this page.

Current Status:

On Track – 1978

On Track…the Pilot’s Air Travel Guide (First Annual Edition – 1978)
Ottawa International Aerodrome (Part 1)

Site Plan – 1942

Site Plan, Uplands, Ottawa, Ontario
(1942) (Source 1 Canadian Air Division)
If you would like a PDF Copy Please Click to Download.

Site Plan – Unknown Year – Likely late 1970’s

Site Plan – CFB Ottawa (Uplands) – Late 1970’s or Early 1980’s – From Welcome guide accessible below.
(click a access a full resolution copy)

Location – Google Map

Photo Gallery

aerial photograph of Uplands, (13 Dec 1943) (REA-300-111 – National Defense Image)

Aerial Photo, CFB Uplands (1979) (Facebook photo posted by Neil Hemstad)

9 March 1943, Cpl J.A.E. Forget, R.117888 of Montreal, Que. tries out a snowmobile at #2 S.F.T.S., Uplands, Ont. (National Defence Image – PL-14996)

18 February 1943, Women’s Division Activities at Uplands, Ontario. W.D. doing some snow removal with a tractor (National Defence Image – PL-14796)

Front Gate, CFB Uplands (early 1970’s) (Facebook photo posted by Neil Hemstad)

Hangar Line, CFB Uplands (mid 1970’s) (Facebook photo posted by Neil Hemstad)

11 August 1940 Construction of the new drill hall 2 S.F.T.S, Uplands, Ontario (National Defence Image – PL-1157)

YouTube

Station Magazine
“The Airman”

Station Magazine
“The Uplands News”

Station Magazine
“The Falcon”

Ephemera

School Daily Diary – Links – No. 2 Service Flying Training School

Fatalities

This list was compiled from the entries in the Daily diaries of No. 2 Service Flying Training School and other sources. The list may not include all fatalities of personnel who died while stationed at RCAF Station Uplands. With input from various sources, so far there were 49 deaths of service personnel that were stationed at Uplands.

27 September 1940

16 November 1940