CFB Trenton - Other Operations

Other Operations

  • The National Air Force Museum of Canada is on the base.
  • Mountain View Detachment, a former WWII RCAF airfield located south of Belleville, is utilized as a storage and overhaul facility of older aircraft. A new gravel runway was constructed in 2006 to train Canadian Forces CC-130 Hercules aircraft crew in landing on unprepared landing strips. The Canadian Forces have also established a drop zone nearby.
  • The base is also home to CSTC Trenton, a cadet summer training centre for the Royal Canadian Air Cadets.
  • Trenton Military VOLMET Military Aeronautical Communications System (MACS) on 6754 and 15,034 kHz USB call sign "CHR"

Read more about this topic:  CFB Trenton

Famous quotes containing the word operations:

    “You can’t have operations without screams. Pain and the knife—they’re inseparable.”
    —Jean Scott Rogers. Robert Day. Mr. Blount (Frank Pettingell)

    “Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)