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Country: Canada
Location: Penticton
Coordinates: 49.28.00N / 119.36.00W
IATA Code: YYF
Timezone: GMT -8
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Penticton Regional Airport or Penticton Airport, (IATA: YYF, ICAO: CYYF), is a little regional airport that is turn up 1.8 NM (3.3 kilometre; 2.1 mi) southwestward of Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. Its briny landing track is 16/34, a paved 6,000 ft × 148 foot (1,829 m × 45 m) surface. YYF also has a little unlisted Turf landing track at 2,200 ft × 75 foot (671 m × 23 m).

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.

History

Initial scrutiny for building an airport in Penticton set about in 1937. Part of the area  that was pick out was owned by an Indian set, and was hence expropriated in 1939. Construction on the airport set about in 1940, and was finished in 1941. Trans-Canada Airlines and Canadian Pacific Airlines assisted the airport after the Second World War. In 1969 Pacific Western Airlines winged jet plane, in the characteristic of the Boeing 737, into the airport, nevertheless, this was finished in 1988 by Canadian Airlines, which had taken over Pacific Western Airlines. The airport elongated to see service from Air BC using turbo-propeller plane aircraft, and currently Air Canada Jazz wings 4 daily voyages to Penticton from Vancouver.

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