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RCAF Goose Bay Station Headquarters c.1957 5 Wing Goose Bay Luftwaffe Tornados at CFB Goose Bay CH-135 Twin Huey from Base Rescue Goose Bay (later 444 Squadron) Avro Vulcan XL361 on display at CFB Goose Bay. Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay (IATA: YYR, ICAO: CYYR), commonly referred to as CFB Goose Bay, is a Canadian Forces Base located in the ...
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Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay. A Canadian Forces base or CFB (French: base des Forces canadiennes, BFC) is a military installation of the Canadian Armed Forces.For a facility to qualify as a Canadian Forces base, it must station one or more major units (e.g., army regiments, navy ships, air force wings).
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444 Fighter Squadron was formed in March 1953 at CFB St. Hubert, Quebec and moved to CFB Baden-Soellingen in West Germany. [1]Disbanded 1967, it was re-formed as 444 Tactical Helicopter Squadron at CFB Lahr, West Germany in 1972 as part of Canadian Forces Europe until 1991 and again in CFB Goose Bay in 1993.
This site had been chosen as a major staging base between Labrador and Newfoundland. Work began at once on the base, which was given the code name Bluie West One (BW-1), and the first plane set down on 24 January 1942. Work on a second west coast base further north, at Sondrestrom or Bluie West Eight, began in September 1941.
In 2019, Goose Bay sailed to the Caribbean to take part in the naval exercise Tradewinds, training with other nation's navies from the area. [19] In 2021, Goose Bay and HMCS Harry DeWolf took part in Operation Nanook. [20] Goose Bay was among the ships deployed to the Arctic for Operation Nanook in August 2022. [21]
Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, 1 April 1956 – 1 April 1966. ... Frobisher Bay Air Base, Northwest Territories, 1 April 1960 – 1 November 1961 Stations.