Hagersville Airport (No. 16 SFTS)

Military decommissioning following the end of World War II. The airport was a purpose-built training facility for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). With the conclusion of the war, the massive demand for training Allied aircrew ceased, and the station was declared surplus to requirements and subsequently closed.

The site has been completely repurposed and is now the Townsend Industrial Park (sometimes referred to as the Hagersville Industrial Park). The original triangular runway pattern is still faintly discernible in satellite imagery, but the land is now occupied by numerous industrial and commercial buildings, roads, and a large-scale solar farm (the Grand Renewable Solar project). Several of the original WWII-era hangars and other station buildings remain standing and have been adapted for modern industrial use, serving as a tangible link to the site's history.

The airport, officially known as Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Station Hagersville, was a vital part of the Allied war effort during WWII. It operated as No. 16 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) within the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). The station officially opened on August 8, 1941. Its primary role was to provide advanced, multi-engine flight training to pilots who had already completed their initial training. The main aircraft used for this purpose was the Avro Anson. The school was managed under contract by a civilian company, Taylor-Cub Aircraft Ltd., on behalf of the RCAF. Like most BCATP airfields, it was constructed with a standard triangular layout of three runways. The station was responsible for graduating thousands of pilots who went on to serve in various theaters of the war. It also operated two relief landing fields nearby to handle the high volume of training traffic.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the site as an airport. The extensive and long-standing industrial redevelopment, combined with the construction of a major solar energy facility on the former airfield grounds, makes a return to aviation operations infeasible.