History
Fort Macleod Airport was originally RCAF Station Fort Macleod, a British Commonwealth Air Training Plan facility located near the west end of Fort MacLeod. It was the location of No. 7 Service Flying Training School which began operation December 9, 1940. A relief landing field was located at Granum. The school closed November 17, 1944, as did RCAF Detachment Granum.
RCAF Stn Fort Macleod had 3 runways in a triangle configuration, i.e. three runways forming an equilateral triangle. All of these runways were abandoned but can be seen clearly in aerial photography. Many wartime RCAF training stations had a triangle configuration in order to allow for a wide range of wind directions. The modern runway 06/24 is not one of the original runways. It was an entirely new runway constructed approximately parallel to one of the existing runways but cutting across the other two near their apex.
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