La Grande Rivière Airport

La Grande Rivière Airport
La Grande Rivière Airport
	IATA: YGL; ICAO: CYGL; WMO: 71827;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Société de Développement de la Baie James
Serves	Radisson, Quebec
Time zone	EST (UTC−05:00)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−04:00)
Elevation AMSL	640 ft / 195 m
Coordinates	53°37′31″N 077°42′15″W / 53.62528°N 77.70417°W
Map
	CYGL Location in Quebec
Runways
Statistics (2010)
Aircraft movements
Aircraft movements	9,343
	Sources: Canada Flight Supplement; Environment Canada; Movements from Statistics Canada

La Grande Rivière Airport (IATA: YGL, ICAO: CYGL) is an airfield location about 30 km (19 mi) south southwest of Radisson, Quebec, Canada. It is used mostly to shuttle Hydro-Québec personnel between Radisson and the larger cities in Quebec, but it is also served by regular scheduled flights of Air Inuit. Passengers from Nunavik region flying south to Montreal go through security at this airport instead of their origin airport.

Air Creebec also served the airport until March 2012.^[4]

During the mid- and late 1970s, Nordair operated scheduled passenger flights nonstop to Montreal Dorval Airport (now Trudeau International Airport) with Boeing 737-200 jetliners on a weekly basis.^[5]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Inuit	Kuujjuarapik, Montréal–Trudeau, Puvirnituq

Accidents and incidents

On 15 November 1975, Douglas C-47 C-FCSC of Nordair was damaged beyond economic repair by fire at La Grande Rivière Airport.^[6]

On 1 August 1994, RAF Tornado GR1 ZD844 made an emergency landing at La Grande Rivière Airport. The aircraft had just had a midair collision with another RAF Tornado, ZA397, which then crashed into a nearby reservoir after the crew ejected.

References

^ Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 16 July 2020 to 0901Z 10 September 2020.
^ Synoptic/Metstat Station Information Archived June 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
^ Total aircraft movements by class of operation — Nav Canada flight service stations
^ "Discontunuance of a domestic services to La Grande (press release)". Air Creebec Inc. March 15, 2012. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 28, 2012.
^ http://www.departedflights.com, April 15, 1975 & Nov. 15, 1979 Official Airline Guide (OAG) editions, Montreal Dorval Airport flight schedules for Nordair
^ "C-FCSC Hull-loss description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved August 21, 2010.

External links

Accident history for YGL at Aviation Safety Network
Past three hours METARs, SPECI and current TAFs for La Grande Rivière Airport from Nav Canada as available.

[CFS-1] Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 16 July 2020 to 0901Z 10 September 2020.

[2] Synoptic/Metstat Station Information Archived June 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine

[move-3] Total aircraft movements by class of operation — Nav Canada flight service stations

[4] "Discontunuance of a domestic services to La Grande (press release)". Air Creebec Inc. March 15, 2012. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 28, 2012.

[5] ttp://www.departedflights.com, April 15, 1975 & Nov. 15, 1979 Official Airline Guide (OAG) editions, Montreal Dorval Airport flight schedules for Nordair

[ASN151175-6] "C-FCSC Hull-loss description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved August 21, 2010.

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