Kingston/Norman Rogers Airport

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Kingston Airport

IATA: YGK – ICAO: CYGK
Summary
Airport type Public
Coordinates 44°13′31″N 076°35′49″W / 44.22528, -76.59694
Website www.cityofkingston.ca
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
01/19 5,000 1,524 Asphalt
07/25 3,933 1,199 Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft Movements 34,139
Source: Canada Flight Supplement[1]
Statistics from Transport Canada.[2]

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, using what is now Gananoque Airport as a relief landing field. A decommissioned yellow Harvard aircraft now stands on a pedestal near the airport entrance to commemorate the airport's wartime 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.

The airport is classified as an airport of entry by NAV CANADA and is staffed by the Canada Border Services Agency. CBSA officers at this airport currently can handle aircraft with no more than 30 passengers.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 10 April 2008 to 0901Z 5 June 2008
  2. ^ Aircraft Movement Statistics: NAV CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations: Annual Report 2007

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