Southern Ontario's Most Beautiful Skydiving Facility

Situated beside the beaches of Lake Erie Skydive Burnaby is a privately owned, full scale professional skydiving facility. Easily accessible by road or by air this well maintained grass airfield has a history dating back to the 1940's.

In it's current form, Skydive Burnaby has a world class reputation and the facilities to match.

• 69 Privately owned acres
• 14+ Acres of pristine parachute landing areas
• 2200 ft. Grass Strip Runway
• Port Colborne CPE5 N42 52 39 W79 21 10 4.8W 10 W ( Elevation 600’ RWY 03 - 21 - 2200 x 75 Turf - Right hand circuit RWY 21 )
• Annual enhancements to the airport and facilities

There is a reason we are considered 'Southern Ontario's Premier Skydiving Facility'. With everything a skydiver might need and many comfort areas for our students and guests.

• Manifest office with ‘Tandem Training’ video room
• Complete bathroom and shower facility
• Full service ‘Rigging Loft’ complete with a professional assortment of sewing and repair equipment.
• Two Twin Otter door mock-ups
• Full sized Cessna 182 mock-up
• The ‘Clubhouse’ with Wii and RockBand
• Public BBQ’s
• Separate tent and camping area
• Auxiliary training center for seminars and events
• Canada's only professionally designed swoop pond. ‘Lake Burnaby’ 325' x 185'. That's roughly the size of a football field!
• On-site 'Accuracy Tuffet'

All of the comforts of home with the added bonus of an airplane (or two) outside the front door.

• 9000 sq. foot hanger with carpeted packing area
• Video debrief and viewing station
• Comfortable lounge area
• 8 ft. Projection screen TV
• Multi-station video editing rooms
• Exclusive student training room
• 16 ft. climbing wall with overhang and ‘Belay’ system
• Full scale Cessna mock-up
• Padded 'Creepers' available for public use
• Private lockers and gear storage racks
• Professional packing staff available
• Workout station with free-weights
• Vending machines for drinks and snacks

You can't have a skydiving centre without airplanes. Skydive Burnaby has brought the largest, strongest, and fastest aircraft into Ontario for skydiving purposes.

Dehavilland Super Twin Otter

• The only full time Twin Otter in Ontario
• Seats 22 jumpers
• 14 000tft. in 15 minutes
• Oxygen system available for special events

Cessna C182

• Rated for 4 jumpers
• Smooth and efficient climb rate
• The ‘workhorse’ of the skydiving industry

Specialty Aircraft

We have enjoyed jumps from

• Helicopters
• Ultralights
• Bi-Planes
• Visiting jump planes

The Skydive Burnaby Tandem and AFP Training areas are separated from the rest of the dropzone to assure our students get the peace and comfort required to learn in a stress-free environment.

Tandem Training Area

• Carpeted for comfort during body position training
• Mirrored wall for visual referencing
• Full scale Cessna 182 mock-up
• Tandem student equipment section

Tandem Equipment

• Strong ‘Dual Hawk’ Tandem parachute systems
• All tandem systems are equipped with an electronic 'Automatic Activation Device (AAD)
• Comfortable tandem student harnesses

Advanced Freefall Progression (AFP) Classroom

• Private classroom environment
• 'Malfunction Junction' review images
• Printed overview of AFP dive-flows
• Video debrief stations
• Horizontal training device

AFP Student Equipment

• Modern parachute systems with 'Main' and "Reserve Back-up' Parachutes
• All AFP student systems are equipped with an electronic 'Automatic Activation Device (AAD)
• Altimeters, jumpsuits, helmets, radios and goggles are supplied by Skydive Burnaby

Skydive Burnaby adheres to the strict rules governing student skydiving operations as set out by Transport Canada, the Canadian Sport Parachuting Association (CSPA) and the United States Parachute Association (USPA).

If you get your thrills during the last 30 seconds of your skydive, then we have the ultimate place for you.

Introducing... 'Lake Burnaby'

• Canada's ONLY Professionally designed swoop pond
• Designed using the FAI World Championship course requirements
• Measuring over 325' x 185'
• Interchangeable course layout system
• Graded landing runout
• Professional marker system
• Safe practice area
• 'Speed' course layout
• Beach-like 'Accuracy' landing zone
• Extended 'Distance' safe area

If it's not at Skydive Burnaby, it's not too far away either.

We try to provide all amenities needed for daily use but sometimes 'life' calls.

Port Colborne is only a short drive away with restaurants, shopping and other necessities (ie. Beer Store!)

Just beyond Port Colborne is Welland Ontario. Home of the Welland Canal and even more amenities and entertainment options.

Niagara Falls is only 40 minutes away with its world famous attractions including, of course, The Falls, Clifton Hill, numerous restaurants, hotels and casinos.