Virden/R.J. (Bob) Andrew Field Regional Aerodrome, (ICAO: CYVD), is located 1 NM (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) north of Virden, Manitoba, Canada. During World War II, Virden airport was home to No. 19 Elementary Flying Training School - part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. As of the summer of 2010, one of the original hangars was still standing.
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“Last night I watched my brothers play,
The gentle and the reckless one,
In a field two yards away.
For half a century they were gone
Beyond the other side of care
To be among the peaceful dead.”
—Edwin Muir (1887–1959)