Fort St. John Airport

Fort St. John Airport
North Peace Airport

Fort St. John Airport, BC
IATA: YXJ – ICAO: CYXJ
– WMO: 71943
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator North Peace Airport Services Ltd.
Location Fort St. John, British Columbia
Time zone MST (UTC−07:00)
Elevation AMSL 2,280 ft / 695 m
Coordinates 56°14′18″N 120°44′25″W / 56.23833°N 120.74028°WCoordinates: 56°14′18″N 120°44′25″W / 56.23833°N 120.74028°W
Website www.fsjairport.com
Map
CYXJ

Location in British Columbia

Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
02/20 6,698 2,042 Asphalt
11/29 6,909 2,106 Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Aircraft movements 28,939

Fort St. John Airport (IATA: YXJ, ICAO: CYXJ), North Peace Regional Airport, or North Peace Airport, is located at Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada. The airport is operated by North Peace Airport Services Ltd (a subsidiary of Vancouver International Airport Authority). The terminal handled 186,104 passengers in 2013.

In 2013, WestJet Encore announced regular scheduled service to Calgary and Vancouver, representing a major expansion of airline service to the Fort St. John market. This service is operated with Bombardier Q400 high speed propjets configured with 78 passenger seats. The Q400, originally designed and manufactured by de Havilland Canada, is the largest and fastest version of the DHC-8 Dash 8 turboprop regional airliner.

Runways

Fort St. John Airport currently has two runways. Runway 11/29 is a 6,909 by 150 ft (2,106 by 46 m) paved runway, while runway 02/20 is a 6,698 by 200 ft (2,042 by 61 m) paved runway.

Current Airline Service

Airlines Destinations
Air Canada Express Vancouver
Central Mountain Air Dawson Creek, Edmonton, Fort Nelson, Prince George
WestJet Encore Calgary,[4] Vancouver[4]

Historical airline service

Commencing in the early 1940s, Canadian Pacific Air Lines and its successors CP Air and Canadian Airlines International operated scheduled passenger service to Vancouver, British Columbia; Edmonton, Alberta; Prince George, British Columbia; Whitehorse, Yukon; Fort Nelson, British Columbia; Grande Prairie, Alberta and Watson Lake, Yukon. CP Air served the airport with Boeing 737-200 jetliners during the 1970s with direct, no change of plane flights to all of the above destinations.[5][6] Other Canadian Pacific flights into the airport over the years were operated with such twin engine prop aircraft as the Lockheed Lodestar, the Douglas DC-3 and the Convair 240 as well as with the larger, four engine Douglas DC-6B propliner and Bristol Britannia turboprop.[7]

See also

Upper Winds Air Ltd.

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

  1. ↑ Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 24 July 2014 to 0901Z 18 September 2014
  2. ↑ Synoptic/Metstat Station Information
  3. ↑ Total aircraft movements by class of operation — NAV CANADA flight service stations
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://airlineroute.net/2013/02/11/ws-s13/
  5. ↑ http://www.timetableimages.com, July 15, 1970 CP Air system timetable
  6. ↑ North American Official Airline Guide (OAG), Feb. 1, 1976 edition, Fort St. John flight schedules
  7. ↑ http://www.timetableimages.com, Dec. 1, 1943; Nov. 1, 1953; April 29, 1962 & April 24, 1966 Canadian Pacific Air Lines system timetables

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