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{{Short description|Airport in Manitoba, Canada}}{{Use Canadian English|date=March 2024}}{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}

factoids

| pushpin_map = Manitoba#Canada| pushpin_label = CJV5| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Manitoba| website = | r1-number = 04/22| r1-length-f = 3,507| r1-surface = Asphalt| footnotes = Source: Canada Flight Supplement{{CFS}}}}Neepawa Airport {{Airport codes||||CJV5}} is located {{convert|1.7|NM|lk=in}} west of Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada, immediately north of the Yellowhead Highway. The airport is operated by the town of Neepawa.WEB,weblink Transportation, Town of Neepawa, November 15, 2021, It is used by owners of light and ultralight aircraft, chiefly for pleasure flying and crop dusting. The airport has also been employed for hanglider training.WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160303213724weblink">weblink March 3, 2016, Neepawa (Formerly RCAF Station Neepawa), Copanational.org, The property supports several light industrial enterprises.

History

The present-day airport building was originally the RCAF Station Neepawa, constructed during the Second World War under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). It was one of many dozens of Canadian airports once used to train pilots and other air crew for the Royal Air Force and other British Commonwealth air forces.BOOK Tens of thousands of eager BCATP trainees from across the globe spent time in and around small towns throughout Canada, often experiencing severe winter weather for the first time. Their lives in Manitoba, on and off base, are dramatized in the 1993 film For the Moment, starring New Zealand actor Russell Crowe.WEB,weblink Un temps pour aimer (1993) [For the Moment (original title)], IMDB.com, November 15, 2021, WEB,weblink Russell Crowe, IMDB.com, November 15, 2021, After the war until the 1960s, the original control tower was operated in support of civil aviation by the Canadian Department of Transport. Other airport facilities, including a hangar and a rifle range, continued for some years to serve Squadron 9WEB,weblink 9 Neepawa,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20141102201638weblink">weblink November 2, 2014, Air Cadet League of Canada, of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets and the local militia organization. Many of the original wooden buildings have since been demolished.

See also

• List of airports in Manitoba

References

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