Brampton-Caledon Airport

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Brampton-Caledon Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorBrampton 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 / 43.75972; -79.87389
Website www.bramptonflightcentre.com/
Map
Canada Ontario location map 2.svg
Airplane silhouette.svg
CNC3
Location in Ontario
Brampton-Caledon Airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
15/333,5001,067Asphalt
08/262,500762Asphalt

Brampton-Caledon Airport( TC LID : CNC3) is a privately owned general aviation airport in Caledon, near Brampton, Ontario, Canada, northwest of Toronto.

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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.

History

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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References

  1. Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 16 July 2020 to 0901Z 10 September 2020.
  2. "History".