Farewell Buttonville Airport: The Emotional Story Behind Its Closure

[@RomanDesignCanada]

Great video. I hope the CYKZ scenery I made can help many pilots to experience some nostalgic moments once again, thanks for featuring it.

[@mattkaczorowski3099]

Your scenery packs are great! CYOO is spot on!

[@RomanDesignCanada]

@@mattkaczorowski3099 Thanks!

[@GlenAndFriendsCooking]

2:26 But that's Wiarton airport.

[@flightstreamer]

It is, but all those folks are from Buttonville flying club. This was a flyout from CYKZ

[@littleboyry1948]

Did my discovery flight there such a fond memory

[@vap57]

I didn't realize that it had already closed!

[@jasonniu5460]

Thank you for this touching tribute!

[@jahoo2k]

Very cool video, that transition between the drone footage and the sim was smooth! So sad to see yet another airport closed.

[@robertgolden2799]

Very well said

[@stevetournay6103]

It's beginning to look as if Toronto Island/Billy Bishop Airport may be the subject of one of these farewell videos too before very long...

[@Cpsvids]

Thank you for making this and sharing - YKZ has so many memories for me also. From Discovery Flight to getting my ticket it was always a welcome home.

[@emmynordstromhigdon1454]

Thanks for this lovely tribute.

[@stevetournay6103]

What would become the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum started at Buttonville in 1971...

[@zevnafte5168]

Wow great shots, nostalgic seeing those runways

[@James-md2yo]

Great memories there. So sad to see it go.

[@jammyfitch8179]

Great video and editing. I can feel the passion you have for this airport and I am sad to see it go.

[@katenokfromtoronto]

Amazing!!!

[@THEREALLYFATPONY]

Really well done!!

[@ilyaredkin4172]

The first airport I took off in Canada. ❤

[@andrewb2476]

Nice video my friend. Shame it’s closed, I wonder what will happen to it now? When it’s in the marketplace sale in MSFS I will buy it as it’s already in my favs section.

[@flightstreamer]

Thanks Andrew! The airport will be demolished and warehouses will be built :(

[@georgebabu]

😢

[@SeadooDerek]

So sad… I did 4 discovery flights there to build some hours to get a head start, and looked at starting my flight training there, I regret not doing so. Now I am inbetween 3 flight schools; Brampton, Oshawa and Barrie. The town of Markham will regret this decision (I know it was privately owned and sold off) Buttonville brought in a lot of income.

[@ashtonw4389]

Ima student at Brampton it’s a good school, expensive though

[@SeadooDerek]

@@ashtonw4389nice! I hope it is going well. I’m most likely going to be going to Barrie.

[@paulgroepler880]

Kiril, this was a very well produced and touching story. I came away wondering one thing... WHY was Buttonville decommissioned? I never got to hear that part of the story. Please tell us?

[@flightstreamer]

Thanks Paul :) The land was purchased by Cadillac Fairview, a commercial real estate company that decided to shut the airport down after the end of the lease agreement, in favor of building commercial warehouses. There was no support from local governments.

[@5683542]

Where to now?

[@flightstreamer]

Oshawa Airport :(

[@flysupreme]

I have an idea you should have a sort of gathering (on msfs2020) with the Canadian national patrol embodied by players who will pass over the airport one last time.

[@flightstreamer]

I'm thinking about doing a tribute live stream on MSFS actually. Perhaps we can open it up for anyone to join, for a virtual low pass & some landings

[@streamer6646]

What happened to the stream of yesterday? 😮

[@flightstreamer]

It's unlisted :) Do you want me to bring it back?

[@streamer6646]

@@flightstreamer Yeah, why not? Is there a reason you made it dissappear? Because it was the first dual-pc stream?

[@flightstreamer]

@@streamer6646 there were few hiccups :D it was a test stream anyway. Ok, I'll bring it back )

[@streamer6646]

@@flightstreamer Yeah, the landing @ Istanbul was quite hickery. But that was probably not caused by the the new setup.