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Country: Canada
Location: Kingston
Coordinates: 44.14.00N / 076.35.00W
IATA Code: YGK
Timezone: GMT -5
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Kingston Airport or Kingston/Norman Rogers Airport, (IATA: YGK, ICAO: CYGK), is an airport turn up 4.3 NM (8.0 kilometre; 4.9 mi) due west of the core group 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 expired in a airplane crash on June 10 1940 while winging from Ottawa to Toronto for a mouth battle.

History

The Kingston airport was originally a British Commonwealth Air Training Program (BCATP) air pressure station built in 1940 at the start of World War II. The airport hosted the Royal Air Force No. 31 Service Flying Training School, which provided progressed voyage grooming in Battle and Harvard aircraft, using what is currently Gananoque Airport as a assuagement districting field. A decommissioned yellowness Harvard aircraft currently stand up on a stand near the airport gate to mark the airport's wartime office. The airport was reassigned to town command in 1972.

The airport's landing track adumbrate exposes the classic BCATP trilateral form. Originally, the airport had 3 Template:Convert/500 landing track. Later, landing track 01/19 was continued north to a length of 5,000 foot (1,500 m) to deal bigger aircraft (the prevailing air current is from the southward off Lake Ontario), and landing track 07/25 was continued northeastwards to a length of about 4,000 foot (1,200 m). The staying landing track, 12/30, was decommissioned in 2003 and changed over to a taxi strip.

On draw close to landing track 25 in a Cessna C-150

Operations

Norman Rogers is a mandatory oftenness airport with an functioning Flight Service Station. Air Canada Jazz offers regular scheduled air service between the airport and Toronto Pearson International Airport. Brock Air Services functions an on-demand charter service, and is a provincially undertake air ambulance supplier. The airport also back up a big sum of money of civil aviation traffic including voyage grooming, and general recreational winging. As 1 of the only public airport to offer an ILS draw close alongside the corridor between Montreal and Toronto (alongside with Ottawa), the Kingston airport is an eminent jump during low condition.

There is also an Ontario Fun Flyers Club turn up on the air field.

The airport is sort out as an airport of entry by NAV CANADA and is staffed by the Canada Border Services Agency. CBSA military officers at this airport now is able to deal aircraft with no more than 30 riders.


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