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Airport information for Oshawa Municipal Airport Country: Canada Location: Oshawa Coordinates: 43.54.00N / 078.51.00W IATA Code: YOO Timezone: GMT -5 Direct flights form Oshawa Municipal Airport Direct flights to Oshawa Municipal Airport Find connecting flights to Oshawa Municipal Airport Find connecting flights from Oshawa Municipal Airport

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Oshawa Airport, (IATA: YOO, ICAO: CYOO), is a municipal airport adjacent to the northward finish of the town of Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. Oshawa Airport is 1 of the major civil aviation airports in the Greater Toronto Area It includes 2 paved landing track and instrument draw close. Oshawa hosts the one-year Canadian Aviation Expo, Canada's biggest one-year air power event.

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 50 riders.

The airport originally opened in June 1941 under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan as No. 20 Elementary Flying Training School RCAF Station Oshawa. Student circulars used Tiger Moth aircraft and were prepared by civilian teachers from the Oshawa, Kingston, and Brant-Norfolk winging baseball clubs. A assuagement districting field was turn up at Whitby. The school closed in December 1944. A bruit regarding this grooming persits saying that a squadron of Harvard aircraft are buried under the field.

The be after building of a Pickering Airport, between Oshawa and Toronto, influence effect in the closing of the Oshawa airport. However, there stays strong resistance to the building of the Pickering Airport, as this labor has been a false-start since the concept of the thought in 1972. Additionally, the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) wants the authorization to decommission Oshawa Airport because it is outside their legal power.

Commercial radio station CKDO and CKGE-FM, licenced to Oshawa, and CJKX, licenced to Ajax, function from studios on the Oshawa Airport lands. There is now a alrge enlargement taking location.

Airport Data

• One Runway 12/30: 4000 foot x 100 foot
• Two Runway 04/22: 2670 foot x 100 foot
• Navigational Aids Air Traffic Control: LOC/DME - 113.35 and Tower - 120.10

Tenants

• NovaJet (Worldwide Executive Aircraft Charter)
• Aerographic
• Air Express Ontario
• Enterprise Airlines
• Canadian Flight Academy
• Corporate Aircraft Restorations
• Nav Canada - Control Tower
• Canada Customs
• Canadian Aviation Expo
• Durham Flight Centre (Flight Training)
• Graham Energy
• Shell Aviation
• Oshawa Military and Industrial Museum
• R. Stuart Aviation Museum
• Refueling Station
• Jeffery Homes
• Oshawa Airport Golf Club
• Oshawa COPA Flight 70
• Recreational Aircraft Association
• R.C.A.F. 420 Wing
• Roaero Aircraft Handling
• Rotary Engine Technologies
• Triumph Airways
• W.G. Cox Aviation Supply
• KX 96
• 1350 CKDO
• 94.9 The Rock

Emergency Services

• Oshawa Fire Services
• Durham Region EMS

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