CFB West Caicos

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Canadian Forces Base, West Caicos is a major airbase of the Canadian Aerospace Forces located on West Caicos Island, an unincorporated area (and otherwise uninhabited save for military personnel) of West Caicos County, one of the five counties of the Canadian territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Its is the second-largest base of the Canadian Armed Forces in the territory, after CFB Mackenzie King.

CFB West Caicos is used exclusively by the Canadian Aerospace Forces as an airbase; the only other service branch ever present comprises those provo (military police) units of the Royal Canadian Gendarmerie responsible for policing of the CFB West Caicos military personnel.

The airbase has three runways; two are 2235 meters in length each, while the third is 3560 meters in length. The base also has a small dock for naval and other marine vessels, but is never used as a proper naval base.