Northern Rockies Regional Airport Fort Nelson Airport |
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![]() Fort Nelson Airport, BC
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Operator | Northern Rockies Regional Municipality | ||||||||||||||
Location | Fort Nelson, British Columbia | ||||||||||||||
Time zone | MST (UTC−07:00) | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 1,253 ft / 382 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 58°50′11″N 122°35′49″W / 58.83639°N 122.59694°WCoordinates: 58°50′11″N 122°35′49″W / 58.83639°N 122.59694°W | ||||||||||||||
Website | http://www.flynorthernrockies.ca/ | ||||||||||||||
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Location in British Columbia | |||||||||||||||
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Aircraft movements | 21,371 |
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Northern Rockies Regional Airport (Fort Nelson Airport), (IATA: YYE, ICAO: CYYE), is located 3.8 nautical miles (7.0 km; 4.4 mi) east northeast of Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.
Commencing during the early 1940s, scheduled passenger service was operated in the past by Canadian Pacific Air Lines and its successors CP Air and Canadian Airlines International to Vancouver, British Columbia; Edmonton, Alberta; Prince George, British Columbia; Fort St. John, British Columbia and Watson Lake, Yukon. CP Air served the airport with Boeing 737-200 jetliners during the 1970s with direct, no change of plane flights to all of the above destinations. Other Canadian Pacific flights into the airport over the years were operated with such twin engine prop aircraft as the Lockheed Lodestar, the Douglas DC-3 and the Convair 240 as well as with the larger, four engine Douglas DC-6B propliner and the Bristol Britannia turboprop.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.