St. Thomas Airport
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| St. Thomas Municipal Airport | |||
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| IATA: YQS - ICAO: CYQS | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Municipality of St. Thomas | ||
| Serves | St. Thomas, Ontario | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 778 ft (237 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 03/21 | 2,640 | 805 | Asphalt |
| 09/27 | 5,050 | 1,539 | Asphalt |
| 15/33 | 2,640 | 805 | Asphalt |
St. Thomas Municipal Airport, (IATA: YQS, ICAO: CYQS), located 3.5 nautical miles (6.5 km) east of St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada is a small airport serving the general aviation needs of the area. The airport was established in 1941 as an air training base for the British Commonwealth Air Training Program. The base was operated by the Department of National Defence (Canada) until the late 1940s as a relief field for Alymer and Fingal. It has three paved runways in the triangular pattern typical to the era.
The airport was purchased by the City of St. Thomas in 1970. The runways were originally all approximately 2,640' in length, but the main east west runway (09/27) was expanded to 5,050' in 1982.
The airport is in uncontrolled airspace but has a UNICOM operating during working hours on 122.70 MHz.
There is one flight training school operating out of the airport, in addition to numerous agricultural aircraft in the summer. St. Thomas airport handles 26,000 aircraft movements per year.
[edit] References
- Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 15 March 2007 to 0901Z 10 May 2007.
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