Fort Macleod Airport
Fort Macleod Airport | |||||||||||
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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°W / 49.700; -113.417 | ||||||||||
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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.
RCAF Station Fort Macleod had six runways in an overlaid triangle configuration. 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 takeoff and landing 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 four near their apex.
References
- ^ Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 16 July 2020 to 0901Z 10 September 2020.
- Bruce Forsyth's Canadian Military History page
External links
- Page about this airport Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine on COPA's Places to Fly airport directory
- BCATP Fort Macleod
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