Kingston/Norman Rogers Airport
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| Kingston Airport | |||
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| IATA: YGK - ICAO: CYGK | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | City of Kingston | ||
| Serves | Kingston, Ontario | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 305 ft (93 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 01/19 | 5,000 | 1,524 | Asphalt |
| 07/25 | 3,933 | 1,199 | Asphalt |
Kingston Airport or Kingston/Norman Rogers Airport, (IATA: YGK, ICAO: CYGK), is an airport located 4.3 nautical miles (7.96 km) west of the core of Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
The airport is named after former MP Norman McLeod Rogers (Kingston and the Islands 1935–1940), Minister of Labour and then National Defence in Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's cabinet. Rogers died in a plane crash on June 10 1940 while flying from Ottawa to Toronto for a speaking engagement.
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[edit] History
The Kingston airport was originally a British Commonwealth Air Training Program (BCATP) air force station built in 1940 at the beginning of World War II. The aerodrome hosted the Royal Air Force No. 31 Service Flying Training School, which provided advanced flight training in Battle and Harvard aircraft. A decommissioned yellow Harvard aircraft now stands on a pedestal near the airport entrance to commemorate that role. The airport was transferred to city control in 1972.
The airport's runway outline displays the classic BCATP triangle pattern. Originally, the airport had three 2,500 foot runways. Later, runway 01/19 was extended northwards to a length of 5,000 feet to handle larger aircraft (the prevailing wind is from the south off Lake Ontario), and runway 07/25 was extended northeastwards to a length of nearly 4,000 feet. The remaining runway, 12/30, was decommissioned in 2003 and converted to a taxiway.
[edit] Operations
Norman Rogers is a mandatory frequency airport with an operating Flight Service Station. Air Canada Jazz offers regular scheduled air service between the airport and Toronto Pearson International Airport. Brock Air Services operates an on-demand charter service, and is a provincially contracted air ambulance provider. The airport also supports a large amount of general aviation traffic including flight training, and general recreational flying. As the only public airport to offer an ILS approach along the corridor between Montreal and Toronto, the Kingston airport is an important alternate during low weather conditions.
[edit] References
- Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 23 November 2006 to 0901Z 18 January 2007.
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