Sioux Lookout Airport

Sioux Lookout Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	CYXL
IATA code	YXL
Coordinates	50 ° 6 ′ 50 ″  N , 91 ° 54 ′ 19 ″  W Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 50 ″  N , 91 ° 54 ′ 19 ″  W
Height above MSL	383 m (1257  ft )
Basic data
opening	1933
Start-and runway
16/34	1615 m × 30 m asphalt

The airport Sioux Lookout , in English Sioux Lookout Airport , the airport of the city of Sioux Lookout in Canada's Ontario .

history

Sioux Lookout Airport opened in 1933. In the mid-1930s, the airport was one of the busiest in North America, with some even calling the airport the second busiest on the continent. In the period that followed, however, the airport lost much of its importance. In 1974 the owner, the Federal Department of Transportation, sold the airport to the community of Sioux Lookout. The current terminal was inaugurated in 1995 and was originally designed for 48,000 passengers a year. Because of the greater volume, the airport had to expand the building shortly afterwards. The two airlines Wasaya Airways and Bearskin Airlines are active in the passenger business today .

Incidents

• On May 1, 1995, a collided Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner 23 of Bearskin Airlines ( air vehicle registration C-GYYB ) on the flight from Red Lake (Ontario) to Sioux Lookout on final approach with a Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain ( C-GYPZ ) of Air Sandy , which had just started in the opposite direction. All three occupants of the metro and the five of the Navajo were killed (see also aircraft collision at Sioux Lookout ) .

Web links

• Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
• Side of the airport

Individual evidence

1. ^ Accident report Metro 23 C-GYYB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 9, 2020.