RCAF Detachment Gananoque was a relief landing field for the Royal Air Force

Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...

's No. 31 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) located at Kingston

RCAF Station Kingston

RCAF Station Kingston was a Second World War air training station built in 1940 at Collins Bay near Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The station was originally built by the Royal Canadian Air Force for use by the Royal Air Force . Like other RAF schools in Canada, it was subject to RCAF administrative...

 during the Second World War

World War II

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. The airfield was located north of Gananoque

Gananoque, Ontario

Gananoque is a town in Leeds and Grenville County, Ontario, Canada. The town had a population of 5,287 year-round residents in the Canada 2006 Census, as well as summer residents sometimes referred to as "Islanders" because of the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River, Gananoque's most...

, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. Gananoque was larger than most relief landing fields and consisted of a typical British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan , known in some countries as the Empire Air Training Scheme , was a massive, joint military aircrew training program created by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, during the Second World War...

triangle-shaped runway pattern, one hangar, and a control tower. The station opened in 1940 and closed in 1945.