Rockcliffe Airport

Ottawa/Rockcliffe Airport
IATA: YRO ICAO: CYRO
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Rockcliffe Flying Club
Location	Ottawa, Ontario
Time zone	EST (UTC−05:00)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−04:00)
Elevation AMSL	188 ft / 57 m
Coordinates	45°27′37″N 075°38′46″W / 45.46028°N 75.64611°W / 45.46028; -75.64611Coordinates: 45°27′37″N 075°38′46″W / 45.46028°N 75.64611°W / 45.46028; -75.64611
Website	Rockcliffe Flying Club
Map
CYRO Location in Ontario
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 09/27 3,300 1,006 Asphalt
Source: Canada Flight Supplement

Ottawa/Rockcliffe Airport or Rockcliffe Airport, (IATA: YRO, ICAO: CYRO), a former military base, is a non-towered airport located on the south shore of the Ottawa River, 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) northeast of Downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The airport is the home of the Canada Aviation Museum, which owns the field, and is used and maintained by the Rockcliffe Flying Club.

The airport land was originally a military rifle range. In 1918, the Royal Air Force began using the field behind the range for experimental mail flights, and the airport opened officially in 1920 as the Ottawa Air Station, one of the six original airfields opened across Canada by the new Air Board. Since it is on the shore of the Ottawa river and the runways were connected to the riverfront by a road, it was one of very few airports capable of handling and transferring floatplanes on both land and water. On March 12, 1930, Canadian World War I flying ace William George Barker crashed into the Ottawa River and died during an aerial demonstration over the field. In July 1931, Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh visited the airport during their northern surveying tour. During World War II. Rockcliffe participated in the British Commonwealth Air Training Program and many other kinds of testing, training, and transport operations, including flying overseas mail to troops in Europe.

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