Pickle Lake Airport

Pickle Lake Airport
Pickle Lake Airport
	IATA: YPL; ICAO: CYPL; WMO: 71845;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Government of Ontario
Location	Pickle Lake, Ontario
Time zone	EST (UTC−05:00)
Elevation AMSL	1,268 ft / 386 m
Coordinates	51°26′47″N 090°12′48″W / 51.44639°N 90.21333°W
Map
	CYPL Location in Ontario CYPL CYPL (Canada)
Runways
Statistics (2010)
Aircraft movements
Aircraft movements	18,698
	Source: Canada Flight Supplement; Environment Canada; Movements from Statistics Canada.

Pickle Lake Airport, (IATA: YPL, ICAO: CYPL), is located 0.7 nautical miles (1.3 km; 0.81 mi) southwest of Pickle Lake, Ontario, Canada. It is serviced by North Star Air and Wasaya Airways with regular scheduled flights from Thunder Bay and Sioux Lookout.

Accidents and incidents

On 12 May 1977, Douglas R4D-1 C-FBKV of Patricia Air Services was written off in an accident. One person was killed.^[4]
On 11 May 1987, Douglas C-47B C-FADD of Air Manitoba crashed near Pickle Lake after a structural failure of the port wing. The aircraft was on a domestic cargo flight from Big Trout Lake Airport to Pickle Lake Airport. Both crew were killed.^[5]
On 17 March 2017, Basler BT-67 C-FKGL of Private Air crashed on take-off for Big Trout Airport, Ontario. All three crew survived.^[6]

^ Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 16 July 2020 to 0901Z 10 September 2020.
^ Synoptic/Metstat Station Information
^ Total aircraft movements by class of operation
^ "C-FBKV Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
^ "C-FADD Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
^ "C-FKGL accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 29 March 2017.

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