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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)
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.

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)
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)

YouTube

Station Magazine
“The Airman”

Station Magazine
“The Uplands News”

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.

Aircraft List

3430 – Yale

Notable Alumni

  • Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee – Author of the poem High Flight – Killed in Flying Accident – 11 Dec 1941

Course List
No 2 Service Flying Training School


  • Wikipedia
  • MilitaryBruce.com – Canadian Military History by Bruce Forsyth
  • Aerodrome Disposal File:

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