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Cartierville Airport
Summary
Airport typeClosed
LocationSaint-Laurent, Quebec
Elevation AMSL120 ft / 36.5 m
Coordinates45°31′00″N 073°43′00″W / 45.51667°N 73.71667°W / 45.51667; -73.71667
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
Closed 8,792 2,680

Cartierville Airport (IATA: YCV, ICAO: CYCV) was an airport in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, now a borough of Montreal. The airport was decommissioned and turned into the Bois-Franc neighbourhood. It was located next to Route 117, and the terminal buildings were accessed via Boul. Henri-Bourassa (formerly Rue Bois Franc), near the present Bois-Franc Train Station on the Montreal—Deux Montagnes Rail Line. [1]

At one time, Canadair Plant One used the airfield to fly off completed CL-215, CL-415, Challenger bizjets and Canadair Regional Jets. The airport was closed to private and commercial passenger traffic in the 1980s when it became apparent that traffic from the nearby Dorval Airport was making it hazardous for chartered flights and flight schools to operate on the site. This left Bombardier as the sole user.

Prior to Bombardier's acquisition of Canadair, Canadair had already acquired title to the airport, and had initiated a subdivision development planning. [2]

Among the aircraft testflown there was the Canadair CL-84 "Dynavert" tilt-wing VTOL airplane. [3]

The first CL-600 Canadair Challenger bizjet took flight on 8 November 1978 from the airport. [4]

Notes

  • Before becoming an airfield, it was the site of the Bois-Franc Pologrounds.
  • Cartierville Airport was first known as Bois-Franc Field, before WWI.
  • RAF pilot Captain Brian Peck flies the first airmail flight in Canada from Bois-Franc Field to Toronto's Leaside Field in 1918, carrying 120 letters. [5]
  • In 1955, an effort by the MP for Saint-Laurent was made to rename the airport as Saint-Laurent Airport [6]
  • An Air France 707 airliner mistook Cartierville for Dorval, but fortunately made a safe landing. However, the runway was not long enough to take off again, so the wings were removed, and it was wheeled to Dorval, via Thimens boulevard and Côte-Vertu road.
  • July 27, 1960 - A Pan Am 707, bound for Dorval Airport in Montreal, Quebec, mistakenly lands at Cartierville. [7]

Airport statistics

  • Runway Length  : 8,792 feet (2,680 m)*.
  • Runway Elevation : 120 feet (36.6 m).
  • WAC : 906
  • Longitude : 73° 43' 0" W
  • Latitude  : 45° 31' 0" N

See also

References

  1. ^ City of Montreal — Burrough of Saint-Laurent, Bois-Franc (accessed June 2005)
  2. ^ NASA, "Potential Use of Tiltrotor Aircraft in Canadian Aviation", D Gazdag, L Alton, 1990
  3. ^ New York Times, "Canadians Test Prototype Of Vertical-Take-Off Plane", Canadian Press, 8 May 1965
  4. ^ M2 PRESSWIRE, "BOMBARDIER AEROSPACE: Bombardier celebrates 20th anniversary of Challenger first flight" , 18 November 1998
  5. ^ Dundurn Press, "Wings across Canada", Peter Pigott, 2002, ISBN 1550024124
  6. ^ Government of Canada, "House of Commons Debates: Official Report", 1955
  7. ^ New York Times, "Jet Lands Safely at Wrong Airport," 28 July 1960


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