Saint-Hubert airport
| Saint-Hubert airport | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | CYHU |
| IATA code | YHU |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 27 m (89 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 16 km east of Montreal |
| Street | Route 112 |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1928 |
| operator | DASH-L |
| Flight movements |
185,000 |
| Runways | |
| 06L / 24R | 2390 m × 45 m asphalt |
| 06R / 24L | 1195 m × 30 m asphalt |
| 10/28 | 853 m × 45 m asphalt |
The Saint-Hubert Airport ( IATA : YHU , ICAO : CYHU ) is an airport in the Canadian province of Quebec . It is located in Saint-Hubert, a district of Longueuil , around 16 kilometers east of downtown Montreal . The airport is used almost exclusively for general aviation and is the fifth most important airport in the country in terms of flight movements, despite the lack of passenger traffic.
description
The airport is on the outskirts of Longueuil, near Autoroute 30 . It has facilities for aircraft maintenance, flight training and air traffic control training . In addition, various companies in the aviation industry have settled in the vicinity. Directly to the airport, the boundaries John H. Chapman Space Center of the Canadian Space Agency and national flight engineer school.
The airport is divided into a civil and a military part. The former air force base CFB Saint-Hubert of the Royal Canadian Air Force has largely ceased operations, however, and a helicopter squadron is still stationed.
Saint-Hubert is classified as a customs airport by Nav Canada and is therefore controlled by the Canada Border Services Agency . The only airline that regularly flies to Saint-Hubert is Pascan Aviation , which offers regional connections with small aircraft in the province of Québec and Labrador .
history
Saint-Hubert is the oldest airport in the Montreal region. It was opened by the Canadian Ministry of Defense in 1928 and immediately used for military purposes. In the same year the company Canadian Colonial Airways took on the civil air traffic. In 1936 the airport became the property of the newly created Ministry of Transport. Only four years later, the Canadian Air Force took him over to train fighter pilots after the outbreak of World War II . Civil aviation was relocated to the new Montreal-Dorval Airport .
In 1968 the airport was again transferred to the Ministry of Transport, which released it for general aviation. With the closure of Cartierville Airport in 1970, the volume of traffic increased significantly, and Pratt & Whitney Canada opened a service center in the same year . In October 1970, at the height of the October crisis , the police found Deputy Prime Minister Pierre Laporte, murdered by the Front de liberation du Québec , in a car parked at the airport . In 1997 the air force base was largely closed. As a result of the new airport policy of the Canadian government, Saint-Hubert airport became the property of the private company Développement Aéroport Saint-Hubert de Longueuil (DASH-L) in 2004 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Total aircraft movements by class of operation. Statistics Canada, May 5, 2011, accessed August 7, 2011 .
- ↑ 438 Tactical Helicopter Squadron. (No longer available online.) Royal Canadian Air Force, Nov. 28, 2008, archived from the original on Dec. 6, 2010 ; accessed on August 7, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Transfer from Saint-Hubert airport to DASH-L. (No longer available online.) Transport Canada, September 13, 2004, formerly the original ; accessed on August 7, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
