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
- Aircraft flown:
- 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

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

Ottawa International Aerodrome (Part 1)

Site Plan – 1942

(1942) (Source 1 Canadian Air Division)
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Location – Google Map
Photo Gallery




YouTube
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
22 November 1940
7 January 1941
31 January 1941
21 February 1941
25 April 1941
29 April 1941
5 May 1941
6 May 1941
8 July 1941
15 August 1941
15 October 1941
16 November 1941
17 November 1941
26 January 1942
15 April 1942
5 June 1942
8 June 1942
20 June 1942
18 September 1942
26 November 1942
8 January 1943
28 May 1943
10 August 1943
22 September 1943
24 September 1943
7 January 1944
1 April 1944
3 August 1944
19 August 1944
6 September 1944
17 February 1945
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
For More information – External Links
- Wikipedia
- MilitaryBruce.com – Canadian Military History by Bruce Forsyth
- Aerodrome Disposal File: