Mont-Joli Airport

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Mont-Joli Airport
IATA: YYY - ICAO: CYYY
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Régie Intermunicipale
Serves		Mont-Joli, Quebec
Elevation AMSL		172 ft (52 m)
Coordinates		48°36′31″N, 068°12′29″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
06/24	6,000	1,829	Asphalt

Mont-Joli Airport, (IATA: YYY, ICAO: CYYY), is located 1.5 nautical miles (2.78 km) north northwest of Mont-Joli, Quebec, Canada.

In the summer of 1940 the Royal Canadian Air Force selected a flat area of farmland between Mont-Joli Station (on the Montreal-Halifax CNR mainline) and the St. Lawrence River for a military airfield. Construction on the aerodrome began in October 1941 and was completed by April 1942 at a cost of $200,000. Three paved runways and 50 buildings were constructed for what became known as RCAF Station Mont-Joli.

Inaugurated on April 15, 1942, RCAF Station Mont-Joli was used as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan for a bombing and gunnery school until the end of the Second World War. Less well-known was RCAF Station Mont-Joli's critical role during the Battle of the St. Lawrence when RCAF Eastern Air Command used it as a coastal patrol base; during 1942-1944, dozens of Canadian cargo and warships were sunk by German U-boats in an effort to close the critical St. Lawrence River waterway off to shipping. Aircraft staging out of Mont-Joli were crucial to warding off U-boats and ensuring the safety of shipping out to the eastern tip of the Gaspé Peninsula at Cap-Gaspé.

RCAF Station Mont-Joli was decommissioned by the air force in 1945 and became the property of the Department of Transport on December 15, 1945 for use as a civilian airport, and its ownership was transferred in 1995 to the "Régie intermunicipale de l’aéroport régional de Mont-Joli". It is the busiest airport in Eastern Quebec, though still very far from the Jean Lesage International Airport in Quebec City and Trudeau International Airport in Montreal.

[edit] Airlines

• Air Canada
  • Air Canada Jazz (Baie-Comeau, Montréal)

[edit] References

• Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 23 November 2006 to 0901Z 18 January 2007.

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