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Gander Airport
Airport Directory » Canada » Gander » Gander AirportAirport information for Gander AirportCountry: CanadaLocation: Gander Coordinates: 48.57.00N / 054.34.00W IATA Code: YQX Timezone: GMT -3.3 Direct flights form Gander Airport Direct flights to Gander Airport Find connecting flights to Gander Airport Find connecting flights from Gander Airport |
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Gander International Airport (IATA: YQX, ICAO: CYQX) is turn up in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and is now run by the Gander Airport Authority. Canadian Forces Base Gander parts the field but is a separate entity from the airport.
History
Construction of the airport set about in 1936 and it was opened in 1938, with its 1st districting on January 11 of that yr, by Captain Douglas Fraser winging a Fox Moth of Imperial Airways. Within a few yr it had 4 landing track and was the biggest airport in the world. Its functionary name until 1941 was Newfoundland Airport.
In 1940, the functioning of the Newfoundland Airport was portioned by the Dominion of Newfoundland to the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and it was renamed RCAF Station Gander in 1941. The field was to a great extent used by Ferry Command for transporting new constructed aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean to the European Theatre, as good as for level operational anti-submarine patrols committed to track down U-boats in the northwest Atlantic. Thousands of aircraft flown by the United States Army Air Corps/United States Army Air Forces and the RCAF designated for the European Theatre moved through Gander.
The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) also constituted Naval Radio Station Gander at the field, using the post as a listening station to observe the transmitting and place of enemy pigboats and war vessel.
Following the conflict, the RCAF pass on functioning of the field dorsum to the rule regime in March 1946, although the RCN's radio station stay and the armed forces office for the entire installation was upgraded through the Cold War.
The authority named the airport Gander Airport and it come up under the disposal of Canada's federal Department of Transport coming after Newfoundland's entry into Confederation. Numerous improvements were do to the landing track and depots, ensuing in much of the present-day contour. The airport turned in importance through the early decenniums of the jet plane age in the 1950s-1970s with its importance being magnified by being located about just on the great circle path between the leading towns of the U.S. East Coast and London.
The field's place was sufficiently close to Europe to let the piston-engined aeroplanes of the 1940s to do a non-refueled transatlantic voyage and the same characteristics made it ideal for the fuel-inefficient jet plane of the post-war decenniums.
Consequently, Gander retained its prominence due to the take for a refueling point for early jet plane. Airlines such as Trans-Canada Air Lines (after Air Canada), British Overseas Airways Corporation (after British Airways), and Pan American World Airways do Gander their briny refueling point.
With the coming of jet plane with continued bushes in the late 1960s, the take for a refueling point stopped on most voyages. Gander has steadily fall in importance since then, but it stays the place of Gander Control, 1 of the 2 air traffic control (the other being Shanwick Oceanic Control in western Scotland) which direct the high-level air passage of the North Atlantic. Every aeroplane travelling to and from Europe or North America moldiness speak to either or both of these air traffic control (ATC).
During the Cold War Gander was also eminent for the figure of individuals from the former Warsaw Pact states who deserted there (including Soviet concert piano player Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov, Cuban water polo participant Rafael Polinario and the Vietnamese adult female famously shot flying a napalmed small town, Phan Thị Kim Phúc). It was 1 of the few refueling points where planes is able to halt en path from eastern Europe or the Soviet Union to Cuba.
On December 12, 1985 Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashed on take-off from landing track 21. The tragedy demanded the lives of eight crew and 248 soldiers from the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division who were returning place for Christmas from a peacekeeping operation deployment in the Middle East. The impact on the southward side of the Trans-Canada Highway on the shore of Gander Lake go forth a coaled uncluttering in the wood where a memorial currently stand up to those who lost their lives in Canada's most lifelessly air crash.
Operation Yellow Ribbon
Main article: Operation Yellow RibbonOn September 11, 2001, with United States air space closed due to the terrorist assails, Gander International played host to 39 airliners, aggregative 6,122 riders and 473 crew, as division of Operation Yellow Ribbon. Gander International had more voyages than anybody other Canadian airport regarded in the functioning apart from Halifax (The airport that pick up the highest figure of riders was Vancouver, with 8,500).
A major ground that Gander had so much traffic was partially due to its ability to deal big aircraft, but mainly because Transport Canada and NAV CANADA learn airplane pilots come up from Europe to keep off the airports in major city of Central Canada, like Lester B. Pearson in Toronto and Montréal-Dorval. The response these traveler had in the central Newfoundland communities near the airport has been 1 of the most widely described happy narrations ringing that solar day.
To honor the individuals of Gander and Halifax for their back up during the functioning, Lufthansa named a new Airbus A340-300 "Gander-Halifax" on May 16, 2002. That plane is named with the enrollment D-AIFC, and is the 1st and sole aircraft in the whole fleet with a town name outside of Germany.
The airport was the location for Canada's commemoration service to mark the 1st day of remembrance of the assail, which Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Transport Minister David Collenette, US Ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci, and provincial and local functionaries presided over. 2,500 of the 6,600 individuals that were deviate there the yr before also go to the observance.
Runways
Currently, Gander has 2 active landing track: landing track 13/31 of 8,900 x 200 human foot (2,712 x 61 m), and landing track 03/21 (modified from 04/22 in August 2004) which measure out 10,200 x 200 human foot (3,109 x 61 m). Runway 09/27 at 1,875 x 50 human foot (571 x 15 m) is for day, optical voyage patterns use only and is closed from one December until 30 April.
The airport's landing track 03/21 is denominated as an emergency districting landing track for the Space Shuttle.
Competition for Trans-Atlantic Flights
Gander contends with Bangor International Airport, turn up in Bangor, Maine, for transatlantic voyages. Although Gander has a rebuff border over Bangor in the figure of daily transatlantic voyages, Bangor has get more and more active agent due to the Iraq War with military personnel going to and fall into place from Iraq. A common visitant to Gander is Evergreen International Airlines.
Future Growth
Officials at Gander International Airport have say that the time to come for the airport is grim unless the federal authority furnishes monetary funding to cover costs. Currently over 50% of all aircraft functioning from the air field are armed forces, and do not pay districting fees. However, domestic rider traffic increased by over 7 percent in 2006, while weekly load voyages from Iceland present some assure of enlargement.
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