Frank, Jon?? (709 retro or what?)
Picton is truly a marvel. Untouched through neglect rather than preservation. It is complete down to the original hand painted stop signs. It is currently privately owned as the 'Loch Slogh' indusrial park and has a few tennants who do storage or bodywork. Up until the mid 1990's there were DC-3's and DC-7's on the runway. Frank, were the "CF-18"'s there or Montainview, some 10 mile north west? There were a number of CF-101 Voodoo's stored in Mountainview as well as an Argus. Rumour has it that the Argus landed there instead of Trenton against the advice of the air traffic controller. The runway was too short for it to take off again. Mountainview also has the rumour that BCATP wrecks were stripped for parts then pushed across the highway for local farmers to salvage. The remains were then pushed down a ravine. The ravine exists full of wreckage but of 1950's era cars not yellow Ansons. Still exploring, move off to Hyuck's Bay where the BCATP Bombing & Gunnery school's target was. The bed is littered with white training bombs.
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