Kingston Airfield

Kingston Airfield
The airfield in 1940
IATA: none ICAO: none
Summary
Airport type	Redeveloped as subdivision
Owner	City of Kingston
Operator	Kingston Flying Club
Location	Kingston, Ontario
Opened	1929
Closed	1942
Time zone	EST (UTC−05:00)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−04:00)
Coordinates	44°15′04″N 076°30′10″W / 44.25111°N 76.50278°W / 44.25111; -76.50278
Map
Kingston Airfield Location in Ontario
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 1,200 365 (Formerly) grass

Kingston Airfield, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, operated from 1929–1942 as Kingston's first airport. It consisted of a grass strip and supporting buildings in what is now the Kingscourt subdivision of the city, just to the west of the St. Mary's cemetery. The city of Kingston purchased what was then the Reid Farm and leased it to the Kingston Flying Club, who operated a flight school using two Gipsy Moth aircraft.

The Kingston Airfield was a popular refueling stop between Toronto and Montreal, and in 1931, 1,400 transient aircraft were recorded using the field.^[1]

The airport was closed in 1942 after a crash. After World War II, the Kingston Flying Club resumed operations at Norman Rogers Airport, west of the city, which had been built as a military field, and the original Kingston Airfield was redeveloped as a residential neighborhood.

References

Sources

• Kingston's First Airfield (Kingston Whig-Standard, 4 June 2009) Retrieved September 12, 2011