New Liskeard, CA 🇨🇦 Closed Airport
CA-1091
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800 ft
CA-ON
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Local Code: Not available
Location: 47.533298° N, -79.616699° E
Continent: NA
Type: Closed Airport
Keywords: PX3 CPX3 CPX3
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c. 1996
The airport was closed due to its replacement by a new, modern facility. The aging infrastructure, originally built during World War II, was deemed inadequate for contemporary aviation standards. The community and regional authorities invested in the construction of the Earlton-Timiskaming Regional Airport (CYTD), located approximately 20 km north, which opened in 1996 to better serve the region's needs with longer runways and modern navigation and terminal facilities.
The site of the former airport has been completely decommissioned and redeveloped. The land has been repurposed for a mix of commercial, industrial, and agricultural use. The original triangular runway layout is no longer visible, having been replaced by buildings, roads, and cultivated fields. Notable developments on the former airfield grounds include a large agricultural co-operative (Co-op), other commercial businesses, and a solar farm. There are no remaining aviation facilities on the site.
The airport's primary historical significance stems from its role in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) during World War II.
- **WWII Operations:** Opened on July 1, 1942, it was known as RCAF Station New Liskeard. It was home to No. 13 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS), which operated until its closure on September 15, 1944. Student pilots from across the Commonwealth received their initial flight training here, primarily on de Havilland Tiger Moth and Fairchild Cornell aircraft. The airfield featured the typical triangular layout of three runways common to BCATP bases.
- **Post-War Operations:** After the war, the airfield was transferred to the Department of Transport and became the municipal airport for New Liskeard and the surrounding area. For nearly 50 years, it handled general aviation traffic, including private aircraft, charter flights, and air ambulance services, serving as a vital transportation link for the local community. The non-standard identifier CA-1091 likely originates from a specific GPS or mapping database from its later years of operation.
There are no plans or prospects for reopening this airport. The site has been fully and irreversibly redeveloped with permanent commercial and industrial structures. The regional aviation needs are fully met by the modern and well-equipped Earlton-Timiskaming Regional Airport (CYTD), making the revival of the old New Liskeard airport both unnecessary and logistically infeasible.
The airfield is still open to landing, it is a private airfield however and not licensed. Feel free to contact me should you want permission to land. 1-705-647-7056
Never got to fly here..and the airport is now closed :(
Cool that I found a little info on the airport - I live in New Liskeard and the strip is still in Microsoft Flight Sim. 2004, if it's the same one I'm thinking of. In the sim you get a building and some concrete taxi way and the grass strip and if you take off over the lake you better throttle up and over the trees at the end of the strip - cool stuff.
Reply to @bcrosby: Have landed there 3 times on fishing trips to Lady Evelyn Lake. Was planning another this year and discovered the closing. John was a good man. He even flew out to the camp in his C180 and took us fishing on a remote lake about 40 miles W of our camp. (Island 10) It was a poor day of fishing but like they say "It sure beat not fishing". Enjoyed it. I had an old '64 Mooney M20E.
Now you know how I feel about Meigs.
It looks like a private grass strip on a farm. There are lots of those around, but they don't usually show up in the CFS. Contact info for the owner is in the CFS, so you can call him for permission in late May, once the ground is hard enough to use the runway.
This airport is listed in the CFS, however I can't seem to find any photos of what the field looks like.
I would like to visit some family in Cobalt, Ontario and flying to New Liskeard would be ideal.
Is this airport still available, or has it been abandoned?