Machinery will move onto one of Canada's busiest GA airports Monday to begin the destruction of the facility to make way for a warehouse development. Buttonville Airport, just north of Toronto, will officially close on Nov. 30 but the decommissioning of the first of two runways will take place this week. Local pilot Phil Lightstone told AVweb that airport officials advised operators of the 30 to 40 aircraft still parked at Buttonville to fly them out as soon as possible. It's not clear when work will begin on the second runway, but when it does all operations will cease. "We will accept and service aircraft until that is no longer an option," airport spokesman Robert Seaman said in an email to tenants.
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