Greenwood is still operational and has been since 1942 when it was an Air Station for the RAF. Greenwood is now the main Search and Rescue base in Eastern Canada and has C-130 Hercules aircraft and EH10 Cormorant helicopters for this task. There are also CP-140 Aurora aircraft based here with the main task of coastal patrol and defence.
The Greenwood airspace is somewhat limited because of the volume of trans-Atlantic traffic going overhead and also due to the close proximity to other relatively busy airports such as Halifax, Moncton, and Saint John. Our airspace is class E out to 25 NM from Greenwood and class D within 7 NM of the Greenwood tower. Our airspace only goes up to 9000' to limit the coordination required with Moncton Area Control Centre but we have a Test Flight Area that allows us to control aircraft out to 40 NM and up to Flight Level 210.
We still have the PAR and I believe it is still the primary precision approach at all the Canadian Air Force Bases although there have been rumors about replacing it at some bases with a Cat II ILS. The Navaids we have in the Greenwood airspace are a TACAN and two NDBs.
Updated: March 27, 2005