RCAF Station Dunnville

RCAF Station Dunnville
Ontario Near Dunnville, Ontario in Canada
The site of No. 6 SFTS in 2020
RCAF Station Dunnville
Coordinates	42°52′20″N 079°35′45″W / 42.87222°N 79.59583°W / 42.87222; -79.59583 (RCAF Station Dunnville)
Site information
Owner	Department of National Defence
Operator	Royal Canadian Air Force
Controlled by	No. 1 Training Command
Website	Airfields
Site history
In use	1940-1944
Garrison information
Past commanders	G/C Alan H. Hull - 1940
Garrison	No. 6 Service Flying Training School
Airfield information
Identifiers	IATA: none, ICAO: none
Elevation	605 ft (184 m) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 5/23 2,750 ft (840 m) Hard Surfaced 5/23 2,500 ft (760 m) Hard Surfaced 10/28 3,500 ft (1,100 m) Hard Surfaced 10/28 3,000 ft (910 m) Hard Surfaced 15/33 2,600 ft (790 m) Hard Surfaced 15/33 2,400 ft (730 m) Hard Surfaced

Royal Canadian Air Force Station Dunnville was a Second World War British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) station located near Dunnville, Ontario. The station was home to No. 6 Service Flying Training School and is usually known by that name.^{[note 1]} Service Flying Training schools trained pilots, either single engine or multi-engine, and 6 SFTS was a single engine school. After graduation the new pilots were assigned various duties, which might be overseas in the Royal Air Force or an RCAF squadron; or in Canada as instructors or staff pilots in the BCATP, or for duty in RCAF Home Defence squadrons.

The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was a temporary wartime measure that ended on 29 March 1945. No. 6 SFTS opened 25 November 1940 and closed on 1 December 1944, and during this time 2,436 airmen received their wings at Dunnville.^[1]

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