Summerside Airport

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Summerside Airport
IATA: YSU – ICAO: CYSU
Summary
Airport type public
Operator Slemon Park Corporation
Location Summerside, Prince Edward Island
Elevation AMSL 56 ft / 17 m
Coordinates 46°26′26″N 063°50′01″W / 46.44056, -63.83361
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.

The airport is one of only two on Prince Edward Island with instrument approaches for bad-weather operations (the other is Charlottetown).

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The airport was formerly a military field, established in 1940 as RCAF Station Summerside, changing its name to CFB Summerside in 1968. The base was active in training aircrews in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan during World War II and hosting search and rescue (SAR) and coastal surveillance units during the Cold War. It was closed in 1990 and transferred to a local development authority named Slemon Park Corporation. The base property is now referred to as Slemon Park and the airfield has been named Summerside Airport.

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