Toronto / Downsview Airport

Toronto / Downsview Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	CYZD
IATA code	YZD
Coordinates	43 ° 44 '34 " N , 79 ° 27' 56" W Coordinates: 43 ° 44 '34 " N , 79 ° 27' 56" W.
Height above MSL	199 m (653 ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	13 km northwest of Toronto
Street	Highway 401 , Yonge Street
Basic data
opening	1939
operator	Bombardier Aerospace
Start-and runway
15/33	2134 m × 61 m asphalt

The Toronto / Downsview Airport or Downsview Airport is a privately-operated airfield in the company Bombardier Aerospace in northwest Toronto . Bombardier has used the airfield almost exclusively as a base for test flights since 1994. Downsview Airport opened in 1939. In 1947, the acquired Canadian Ministry of Defense to expand the airfield the right, and built around him a military airfield of the Royal Canadian Air Force . In 1996 the military airfield was closed. Downsview Airport has been managed by Bombardier since 1998. The airfield is sometimes used for special occasions such as Pope John Paul II's two trips to Canada in 1984 and 2002, who arrived at Downsview Airport. The main purpose, however, is to provide companies with a test site to test their aircraft. Aircraft manufacturers such as de Havilland Canada and Avro Canada tested here a. a. the de Havilland Canada DHC-2 , de Havilland Canada DHC-5 , de Havilland Canada DHC-6 , De Havilland DHC-8 or Avro Canada CF-105 aircraft .

North of the runway is the Canadian Air and Space Museum (formerly Toronto Aerospace Museum ), which should not be confused with the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa .