La Grande Rivière Airport
"YGL" redirects here. For other uses, see YGL (disambiguation).
For homonymy, see Grande-Rivière.
| La Grande Rivière Airport | |||||||||||
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IATA: YGL – ICAO: CYGL – WMO: 71827 | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Société de Développement de la Baie James | ||||||||||
| Serves | Radisson, Quebec | ||||||||||
| Time zone | EST (UTC−05:00) | ||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−04:00) | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 640 ft / 195 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 53°37′31″N 077°42′15″W / 53.62528°N 77.70417°WCoordinates: 53°37′31″N 077°42′15″W / 53.62528°N 77.70417°W | ||||||||||
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La Grande Rivière Airport (IATA: YGL, ICAO: CYGL) is an airfield location about 30 km (19 mi) south southwest of Radisson, Quebec, Canada. It is used mostly to shuttle Hydro-Québec personnel between Radisson and the larger cities in Quebec, but it is also served by regular scheduled flights of Air Inuit.
Air Creebec also served the airport until March 2012.[4]
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Inuit | Kuujjuarapik, Montréal-Trudeau, Puvirnituq |
Accidents and incidents
- On 15 November 1975, Douglas C-47 C-FCSC of Nordair was damaged beyond economic repair by fire at La Grande Rivière Airport.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 24 July 2014 to 0901Z 18 September 2014
- ↑ Synoptic/Metstat Station Information
- ↑ Total aircraft movements by class of operation — Nav Canada flight service stations
- ↑ "Discontunuance of a domestic services to La Grande (press release)". Air Creebec Inc. March 15, 2012. Retrieved March 28, 2012.
- ↑ "C-FCSC Hull-loss description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
External links
- Past three hours METARs, SPECI and current TAFs for La Grande Rivière Airport from Nav Canada as available.
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