Blissville Airport

The airfield was closed following the end of World War II and the subsequent shutdown of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), for which it served as a primary relief landing field. With the war's end, the massive infrastructure for training pilots was no longer required.

The site is an abandoned airfield located entirely within the controlled-access training area of Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Gagetown. The distinct triangular runway pattern is still clearly visible from satellite imagery, but the asphalt and concrete surfaces are severely deteriorated and unmaintained. The area and its former runways are actively used by the Canadian Armed Forces for military training exercises, including armored vehicle maneuvers and tactical simulations. The site is not accessible to the public and may contain unexploded ordnance (UXO).

Blissville Airport was constructed during World War II as a Relief Landing Field (R1) for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Its primary role was to support No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS), which was based at the nearby RCAF Station Penfield Ridge, as part of the vast British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. The airfield featured the classic triangular runway layout common to BCATP fields, designed to allow for takeoffs and landings regardless of wind direction. Student pilots training on aircraft like the de Havilland Tiger Moth and Fleet Finch would have used Blissville for circuit training, practice landings, and emergency diversions. After the war, the land was expropriated in the early 1950s to become part of the newly established Camp Gagetown (now CFB Gagetown), one of the largest military training areas in the Commonwealth.

None. The land is an integral and active part of CFB Gagetown, one of Canada's most important military training facilities. There are no plans or prospects for it to ever be decommissioned from military use and reopened as a civilian airport.