Fort Macleod Airport

Fort Macleod Airport (TC LID: CEY3) is located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) southwest of Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada.

Fort Macleod Airport
IATA: none ICAO: none TC LID: CEY3
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Town of Fort Macleod
Location	Fort Macleod, Alberta
Time zone	MST (UTC−07:00)
• Summer (DST)	MDT (UTC−06:00)
Elevation AMSL	3,138 ft / 956 m
Coordinates	49°42′N 113°25′W
Map
CEY3 Location in Alberta
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 06/24 3,000 914 Asphalt
Source: Canada Flight Supplement

History

Fort Macleod Airport was originally RCAF Station Fort Macleod, a British Commonwealth Air Training Plan facility located near the west end of Fort MacLeod.

RCAF Station Fort Macleod had six runways in an overlaid triangle configuration. All of these runways were abandoned but can be seen clearly in aerial photography. Many wartime RCAF training stations had a triangle configuration in order to allow for takeoff and landing a wide range of wind directions. The modern runway 06/24 is not one of the original runways. It was an entirely new runway constructed approximately parallel to one of the existing runways but cutting across the other four near their apex.

References

• Bruce Forsyth's Canadian Military History page

External links

• Page about this airport Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine on COPA's Places to Fly airport directory
• BCATP Fort Macleod