Downsview Airport

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Downsview Airport, formerly IATA: YZD, ICAO: CYZD, is a defunct airport located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. An air field, then air force base, it had been a testing facility for Bombardier Aerospace from 1994. In 2018, Bombardier sold the facility to Northcrest Developments, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Public Sector Pension Investment Board; in late 2023, Northcrest announced that industrial and airport operations would close by mid-2024, as redevelopment into commercial and residential properties moves forward. The airport was closed in April 2024. In August 2024, when launching the transformation to a mixed residential development, Northcrest Developments unveiled that the 1.5 km2 (370 acres) of the former Downsview Airport lands would be named YZD, drawing on the site’s history. Downsview Airport had its own fire service (Bombardier Aerospace Emergency Services) which covered airport operations (using two airport fire rescue vehicles) and plant operations (using two SUV emergency vehicles). Bombardier Emergency Services employees were cross-trained as firefighters, first responders and airport security. Until August 2022, Downsview Airport served as the primary manufacturing site for the Bombardier Q400, the principal plane of Air Canada Express and WestJet Encore, respectively the regional operations of Canada's two main airlines, Air Canada and WestJet.