Brampton-Caledon Airport | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Operator | Brampton Flying | ||||||||||||||
Location | Caledon, Ontario | ||||||||||||||
Time zone | EST (UTC−05:00) | ||||||||||||||
• Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−04:00) | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 936 ft / 285 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 43°45′35″N079°52′26″W / 43.75972°N 79.87389°W | ||||||||||||||
Website | www.bramptonflightcentre.com/ | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Canada Flight Supplement [1] |
Brampton-Caledon Airport( TC LID : CNC3) is a privately owned general aviation airport in Caledon, near Brampton, Ontario, Canada, northwest of Toronto.
The club and airport was established in 1946 and occupies 240 acres (0.97 km2) of land. The airport consists of two paved runways, a flight school building, terminal building, aircraft service and maintenance facilities and 25 storage hangars. It is the busiest uncontrolled airport in Canada by number of flights.
The Brampton Flying Club first opened the airfield in 1946 on farmland and replaced a series of earlier landing strips near Highway 7 (Stan Archdekin Strip, Fallis Strip, Rankin Kellum Strip, First Line West and Ontario Department of Agriculture Field) built around 1945. [2]
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