Toronto/Downsview Airport
Downsview Airport, formerly IATA: YZD, ICAO: CYZD, is a now-closed airport located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. An air field, then air force base, it had been a testing facility for Bombardier Aerospace from 1994.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Airport
- Description: airport
- Also known as: “CYZD”, “Downsview Airport”, and “YZD”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sheppard West station and Downsview Park.
Sheppard West station
Metro station
Photo: Downsview108, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sheppard West is a subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station, which is located near the intersection of Sheppard Avenue West and Allen Road, opened in 1996 in what was then the City of North York, and the commuter parking lot opened in July 2005.
Downsview Park
Park
Photo: Mhsheikholeslami, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Downsview Park is a large urban park located in the Downsview neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The park's name is officially bilingual due to it being federally owned and managed, and was first home to de Havilland Canada, an aircraft manufacturer, and later was a Canadian Forces base.
DRDC Toronto
Military installation
DRDC Toronto is a major military research station located at the former site of CFB Downsview in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of several centres making up Defence Research and Development Canada.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lawrence Heights and Armour Heights.
Lawrence Heights
Neighborhood
Photo: GTD Aquitaine, Public domain.
Lawrence Heights is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located north-west of central Toronto, in the district of North York. The neighbourhood is roughly bounded by Lawrence Avenue to the south, Yorkdale Road to the north, Varna Drive to the east and Dufferin Street to the west. Lawrence Heights is situated 2½ km southeast of Toronto/Downsview Airport.
Armour Heights
Neighborhood
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Armour Heights is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the district of North York. It is bounded by Wilson Avenue to the south, Bathurst Street to the west, and the west branch of the Don River to the north and east. Armour Heights is situated 3 km east of Toronto/Downsview Airport.
Lawrence Manor
Neighborhood
Photo: GTD Aquitaine, Public domain.
Lawrence Manor is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This neighbourhood is bounded by Bathurst Street on the east, Highway 401 to the north, the Allen to the west, and Lawrence Avenue to the south. Lawrence Manor is situated 3½ km southeast of Toronto/Downsview Airport.
Toronto/Downsview Airport
- Categories: airport, air base, and transportation
- Location: North York, Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Toronto/Downsview Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Downsview Airport”
- Chinese: “當士維机场”
- Chinese: “當士維機場”
- French: “aéroport de Downsview”
- French: “Aéroport de Downsview”
- German: “Flughafen Toronto/Downsview”
- Indonesian: “CYZD”
- Indonesian: “YZD”
- Korean: “다운스뷰 공항”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Toronto/Downsview”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Toronto”
- Persian: “CYZD”
- Persian: “YZD”
- Persian: “فرودگاه دوونسویو”
- Piemontese: “Toronto - Downsview Airport”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Downsview”
- Swedish: “Downsview Airport”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи дувнсую”
- Welsh: “Maes Awyr Downsview”
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