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Project: Rebuilding 8 Wing/CFB
Trenton’s flight line
It would be difficult to overstate the significance of the
construction taking place at CFB Trenton as 2011
begins. In one project alone, DCC is managing the
largest single-building hangar construction project ever
undertaken by the CF and one of the largest single
projects DCC has ever awarded. The $84.7-million
Maintenance Hangar 1 will be 10 storeys high, include
3,000 tonnes of steel and be able to accommodate
three CC-177 Globemaster IIIs, an aircraft considered
essential to Canada’s strategic airlift capability.
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But it is far from the only project underway: a current
$334-million construction boom at CFB Trenton is
part of more than $860 million in infrastructure
upgrades announced since 2007. It includes a new
Air Mobility Training Centre, Material Distribution
Centre, training accommodations building, electrical
and mechanical engineering and transportation garage,
aircraft refurbishing facility for the Aerospace and
Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron
Refinishing Facility, and hangar for the J-model C-130
Hercules aircraft.
This activity reflects 8 Wing/CFB Trenton’s role as one of
the largest and busiest Air Force bases in Canada. As a
hub for air transport operations, it’s involved in virtually
every CF operation, including resupplying CFS Alert, the
world’s northernmost permanently inhabited location,
and providing search and rescue coverage over a
1-million-square-kilometre area of central Canada.
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