Summerside Airport

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Summerside Airport
IATA: YSU - ICAO: CYSU
Summary
Airport type		public
Operator		Slemon Park Corporation
Serves		Summerside, Prince Edward Island
Elevation AMSL		56 ft (17 m)
Coordinates		46°26′26″N, 063°50′01″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
06/24	8,000	2,438	Asphalt

Summerside Airport (IATA: YSU, ICAO: CYSU) is located 3.5 nautical miles (6.5 km) north-northwest of Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, on the grounds of CFB Summerside, a former military base. The airport is one of only two on Prince Edward Island with instrument approaches for bad-weather operations (the other is Charlottetown).

Contents 1 History 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] History

The airport was formerly a military field, first RCAF Station Summerside, then CFB Summerside. During World War II, the field hosted two training schools for aircrews in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan: first No. 9 Service Flying Training School using the North American Harvard advanced trainer (the school later moved to RCAF Station Centralia), then No. 1 General Reconnaissance School using the Avro Anson.

[edit] See also

• List of British Commonwealth Air Training Plan facilities in Canada

[edit] References

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

[edit] External links

• COPA Places to Fly entry

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