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Mont Joli Airport
Airport Directory » Canada » Mont Joli » Mont Joli AirportAirport information for Mont Joli AirportCountry: CanadaLocation: Mont Joli Coordinates: 48.36.00N / 068.12.00W IATA Code: YYY Timezone: GMT -5 Direct flights form Mont Joli Airport Direct flights to Mont Joli Airport Find connecting flights to Mont Joli Airport Find connecting flights from Mont Joli Airport |
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Mont-Joli Airport, (IATA: YYY, ICAO: CYYY), is turn up 1.5 NM (2.8 kilometre; 1.7 mi) northward northwest of Mont-Joli, Quebec, Canada.
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In the summertime of 1940 the Royal Canadian Air Force take a flat area of farming area between Mont-Joli Station (on the Montreal-Halifax Canadian National Railway mainline) and the Saint Lawrence River for a armed forces field. Construction on the airport set about in October 1941 and was finished by April 1942 at a cost of $200,000. Three paved landing track and 50 constructions were build for what got known as RCAF Station Mont-Joli.
Inaugurated on April 15, 1942, RCAF Station Mont-Joli was used as division of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan for a bombing and gunnery school until the finish of World War II. Less well-known was RCAF Station Mont-Joli's critical part during the Battle of the St. Lawrence when RCAF Eastern Air Command used it as a coastal patrol ground; during 1942-1944, twelves of Canadian load and war vessel were drop by German U-boats in an attempt to close the critical Saint Lawrence Seaway off to shipping. Aircraft level out of Mont-Joli were important to ward off U-boats and securing the safety of shipping out to the eastern tip of the Gaspé Peninsula at Cap-Gaspé.
RCAF Station Mont-Joli was decommissioned by the air pressure in 1945 and got the belonging of the Department of Transport (currently Transport Canada) on December 15, 1945 for use as a civilian airport, and its ownership was reassigned in 1995 to the "Régie intermunicipale de l’aéroport régional de Mont-Joli". It is the busiest airport in Eastern Quebec, though still real far from the Québec/Jean Lesage International Airport in Quebec City and Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal.
In 2007 a 2nd landing track (15/33) was opened and the 06/24 landing track fall in length from 6,000 foot (1,829 m) to 5,000 foot (1,524 m).
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