CHEK tours CFB Comox on Vancouver Island

Canadian Forces Base Comox, referred to as CFB Comox or 19 Wing, is located 4.6 kilometres north of Comox.

At the base is 19 Wing Comox Canadian Forces Base Comox on Vancouver Island.

Its Aurora crews keep watch over the Pacific Ocean looking for illegal fishing, migration, drugs and pollution in addition to foreign submarines. With CC-115 Buffalo Aircraft and CH-149 Cormorant Helicopters, they also carry out search and rescue operations in the busiest region in Canada, stretching from the B.C.-Washington border to the Arctic, and from the Rocky Mountains to 1,200 km out into the Pacific Ocean.

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