Fort Macleod Airport
| Fort Macleod Airport | |||||||||||
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| IATA: none – ICAO: none – TC LID: CEY3 | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Town of Fort Macleod | ||||||||||
| Location | Fort Macleod, Alberta | ||||||||||
| Time zone | MST (UTC−07:00) | ||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | MDT (UTC−06:00) | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 3,138 ft / 956 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°42′N 113°25′W / 49.700°N 113.417°WCoordinates: 49°42′N 113°25′W / 49.700°N 113.417°W | ||||||||||
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  CEY3 Location in Alberta | |||||||||||
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Source: Canada Flight Supplement[1] | |||||||||||
Fort Macleod Airport, (TC LID: CEY3), is located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) southwest of Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada.
History
Fort Macleod Airport was originally RCAF Station Fort Macleod, a British Commonwealth Air Training Plan facility located near the west end of Fort MacLeod. It was the location of No. 7 Service Flying Training School which began operation December 9, 1940. A relief landing field was located at Granum. The school closed November 17, 1944, as did RCAF Detachment Granum.
RCAF Stn Fort Macleod had 3 runways in a triangle configuration, i.e. three runways forming an equilateral triangle. All of these runways were abandoned but can be seen clearly in aerial photography. Many wartime RCAF training stations had a triangle configuration in order to allow for a wide range of wind directions. The modern runway 06/24 is not one of the original runways. It was an entirely new runway constructed approximately parallel to one of the existing runways but cutting across the other two near their apex.
References
- ↑ Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 24 July 2014 to 0901Z 18 September 2014
External links
- Page about this airport on COPA's Places to Fly airport directory
- BCATP Fort Macleod
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