Maple Airport | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | |||||||||||||||
| Airport type | |||||||||||||||
| Owner | Maple Flying Club Great Pine Ridge Developments Neiltown Air Limited | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Great Pine Ridge Developments Neiltown Air Limited | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Vaughan Township, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | EST (UTC−05:00) | ||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−04:00) | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 43°50′36″N079°31′37″W / 43.84333°N 79.52694°W | ||||||||||||||
| Map | |||||||||||||||
  Maple Airport Location in Ontario | |||||||||||||||
 | |||||||||||||||
| Runways | |||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
Maple Airport was a small airfield in the Township of Vaughan (now a city) in York Region, Ontario, Canada, near the namesake former Village of Maple, that was open from 1955 until 1987. The airport, established by Marion Alice Orr, one of Canada's first female pilots, consisted of two runways in an X pattern; 3,700 feet (1,100 m) and 2,500 feet (760 m). The runways were originally grass but were paved in 1980.
Contents
At one point, the Maple Airport was the third-busiest private commercial and civilian airport in Canada not to have a control tower.
The urbanization of Vaughan and the Maple area led to the closure of the airport in 1987.
Nothing remains of the airport today, which is now the site of a residential area and Le Petite Prince Catholic Elementary School. A small park in the neighbourhood, on Avro Road, was named Maple Airport Park in honour of the former airport. Many streets are named after aircraft makes and models such as Avro, Lockheed, and Mustang.
