Trenton/Mountain View Airport

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Trenton/Mountain View Airport
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Summary
Airport typeMilitary
Operator DND
Location Mountain View, Ontario
Time zone EST (UTC−05:00)
  Summer (DST)EDT (UTC−04:00)
Elevation  AMSL 362 ft / 110 m
Coordinates 44°04′12″N077°20′22″W / 44.07000°N 77.33944°W / 44.07000; -77.33944
Map
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CPZ3
Location in Ontario
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
06R/24L4,9731,516Asphalt
06L/24R4,7971,462Gravel
16/343,004916Crushed concrete/asphalt
Source: Canada Flight Supplement [1]

Trenton/Mountain View Airport( TC LID : CPZ3) is located 5.2 nautical miles (9.6 km; 6.0 mi) southeast of Mountain View, Ontario, Canada.

The airport serves as a Royal Canadian Air Cadets flying centre from May until October and as a flight training centre from June until the end of August each summer. Stored at Canadian Forces Detachment Mountain View, a geographically separated detachment of CFB Trenton located at the airport, are retired Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) aircraft. [2] A dismantled de Havilland Canada CC-115 Buffalo is located here.

A new gravel runway (06L/24R) was constructed in 2006 to train RCAF Lockheed CC-130 Hercules aircraft crews in landing on unprepared landing strips.

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References

  1. Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 27 November 2025 to 0901Z 22 January 2026.
  2. Robertson, I. (2013). Camp Picton Wartime to Peacetime. Bloomfield, Ontario: County Magazine Printshop Ltd. ISBN   978-0-9683109-6-0.