RCAF Station Calgary What is referred to here as RCAF Station Calgary was actually a collection of Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ) training establishments and other facilities that operated in Calgary , Alberta , Canada from the mid - 1930s to the mid - 1960s . In 1935 the RCAF constructed a landing field on a section of the Canadian Army ' s Currie Barracks located in southwest Calgary . The airfield was known as Currie Field or the Calgary Military Airport . In 1938 , the aerodrome was home to two RCAF squadrons : No . 3 ( Bomber ) Squadron ( flying Westland Wapiti s ) and No . 1 ( Fighter ) Squadron ( flying Siskins and later , Hawker Hurricane s ) . No . 1 ( F ) Squadron was renumbered to 401 Squadron when it was posted overseas for combat duty . During the Second World War , the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan ( BCATP ) established " No . 3 Service Flying Training School " ( SFTS ) at the airfield . Aircraft flown at this school were Avro Anson s and Cessna Cranes . No . 3 SFTS closed September 28 , 1945 . After the war , No . 10 Repair Depot was located at the station until 1947 when No . 25 Air Materiel Base Calgary was formed . The base was renamed RCAF Station Lincoln Park . Among the station ' s functions , Lincoln Park was a training centre for NATO pilots . This training facility closed in 1958 and the station became an emergency landing field . RCAF Station Lincoln Park was closed in 1964 , but portions of the base were retained to house military families . The former hangar line at Lincoln Park was taken over by the various Army field units garrisoned at CFB Calgary . The remaining property was sold to the ATCO Company , the City of Calgary and Mount Royal College . The main campus of Mount Royal College now occupies a section of the old aerodrome while the old hangars are occupied by various businesses , including the Calgary Farmer ' s Market . As well as the primary operational field at Lincoln Park , a satellite or " relief " field existed at Shepherd , just to the southeast of the city . The auxiliary training facilities at Shepard were used for air training using North American Harvard and Fleet Fort aircraft . No . 2 Wireless school ceased operation on April 14 , 1945 . The last vestiges of runways disappeared in 2001 when an industrial park was built and the last runway ( north - south ) was removed . The north - south runway was used as a dragstrip from the 1960s to 1983 under the name Calgary International Raceway . " No . 37 Service Flying Training School " ( SFTS ) was a Royal Air Force flying school located at McCall Field , which is now Calgary International Airport in northeast Calgary . The school opened October 22 , 1941 . Like all RAF schools in Canada during this time , No . 37 SFTS was subject to RCAF administrative and operational control and formally became part of the BCATP in 1942 . Pilots in training flew Avro Anson s and Cessna Cranes . The school closed March 10 , 1944 . An original BCATP building is used by the Calgary Aerospace Museum . " No . 2 Wireless School " was a BCATP radio operator school . It opened September 16 , 1940 and was located at the old Alberta Provincial Institute of Technology and Art , which is now the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology ( SAIT ) . As one of the largest wireless training schools , it trained thousands of radio operators . Calgary was the location of No . 4 Training Command Headquarters from October 1941 to November 1944 after having moved from Regina , Saskatchewan . No . 4 Training Command Headquarters was responsible for BCATP operations in Alberta , British Columbia , and much of Saskatchewan . No . 11 Storage Depot , RCAF , was also located in Calgary until being closed in the early 1950s .