File talk:Toronto Flying Club, Malton Airport.jpg

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I received the following information that the Toronto Flying Club photo was not taken in Malton: "Incorrect Photo Caption. This is the Toronto Flying Club airport on the north side of Wilson Avenue just east of Dufferin Street. During the Second World War, this property became the southern end of de Havilland (now Downsview Airport). A shopping plaza with a Home Depot is now on the south side of the road. Ken Swartz, Director, Canadian Air & Space Museum, Toronto, 2012" Bzaoral (talk) 18:26, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Photo at http://torontoaviationhistory.com/galleries/Historic/TFCWilsonAve.htm shows an alternate view and is captioned "Toronto Flying Club on Wilson Avenue 1930's - Note Cities Service DC-2". The Douglas DC-2 was produced 1934-1939.

Further evidence... Excerpt from page 57 of “A Toronto Album 2: More Glimpses of the City That Was” by Mike Filey:

"It wasn’t until 1935 that the federal government finally got its act together and announced it would build a $1-million airport to serve the aviation needs of Toronto. Government press releases trumpeted that it would be “the finest in all Canada.” But where would it be built? That was still the question. Eventually, the government announced that it was considering two possible sites, both of which were in the still rural Township of North York. The first would involve the expansion of an existing airfield on the west side of Dufferin Street, a mile or so north of today’s Lawrence Avenue West. (At that time, both thoroughfares were still nothing more than dirt trails.) The second possibility was the creation of an airport on a large piece of farmland at the northeast corner of Dufferin Street and Wilson Avenue that was owned by the Toronto Flying Club."

Construction of Malton Airport did not begin until 1937.

"The aerodrome shared the site with the Toronto Flying Club (located at Dufferin Street and Wilson Avenue)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Aerodrome

See also Toronto Airfield map 1920's and 1930's showing toronto Flying Club Airfield at http://www.lostrivers.ca/content/points/air.html 

Bzaoral (talk)
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