Airport type Military Elevation AMSL 1,291 ft / 393 m 8,200 2,499 | Location Casey, Quebec 05/23 8,200 | |
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The Casey Emergency Airstrip was a military airstrip located near the village of Casey, Quebec. Early during the planning of this airstrip the location was initially named McCarthy, after another nearby village on the railway. The airstrip was constructed between 1952 and 1953 by the Canadian Ministry of Transportation, as an emergency airstrip, by the request of the Department of National Defence to support the Pinetree Line. The runway was extended to 8,200 feet, after initially being built as a 6,000 foot concrete runway. The airstrip would function as a detachment of RCAF Station Parent, under the control of the Lac St. Denis Air Defence Control Centre (ADCC).
The Casey airstrip was being considered to be a home for a RCAF squadron, and at one time considered to be a site for another BOMARC site.
The airfield was sold to a private firm in November 1964 and is now abandoned.
Post-Closure
In the early 1970s planes spraying for the spruce budworm used the airstrip to fill up with larvacide, fuel, and take off. On June 9, 1973 one such plane crashed on take off at the end of the runway after briefly being airborne.
In 1993 a drug-laden Convair 540 landed after being pursued bt CF-18 fighters.