The Charlottetown Airport is located within the City of Charlottetown in the Province of Prince Edward Island. The airport facility is located on Maple Hills Avenue, just minutes from downtown Charlottetown, off Route 15 on the Brackley Point Road.

The airport is located on 610 hectares (1508 acres) of land which is currently owned by Transport Canada but operated since March 1, 1999 under a long-term lease by the Charlottetown Airport Authority Inc., a “not-for-profit” corporation.

Aerodrome operations & Facilities

Charlottetown Airport is a public use, land airport and operates day and night (24 hours/day, 7 days/week) using both Visual Flight Rules (VFR) and Instrument Flight Rules (IFR).

The airport has 2 runways, 03/21 being the primary runway that is 7000 feet long by 150 feet wide and is equipped with an Instrument Landing System (ILS). Runway 10/28 is the secondary runway and is 5000 feet long by 200 feet wide.

There are two aircraft parking Aprons (Apron I & II). Apron I is used primarily by scheduled air carriers ands larger general aviation aircraft and has approximately 18,400 sq. m. (183m x 100m) of concrete while Apron II is of asphalt construction with approximately 9,000 sq. m. (110m x 82m) of parking/movement space.

The Air Terminal Building, constructed in 1985/86, is a spacious, barrier free facility, including a restaurant, gift shop, lounge and four major vehicle rental agencies. There is a taxi concession license which stipulates that the taxi concessionaire must meet all scheduled flights and provide a taxi service to Charlottetown and all surrounding areas. Licensed tour and bus operations also operate from the airport.

Other amenities in the terminal building include a banking machine, money changer, public pay phones including a TTY (teletypewriter), direct lines to various hotels, and a business center with Internet and e-mail access. Ample parking is available in either the Short-Term or in the Long-Term Parking Lot.

Various general aviation businesses and other tenants are located at the airport with additional airside and groundside lots available for lease. The Charlottetown Airport Business Park is located immediately adjacent to Brackley Point Road, 0.5 km north of the Charlottetown By-Pass Highway providing tenants with quick and easy access to the downtown core or the provincial highway system.

Airline Information

Charlottetown Airport is Prince Edward Island’s only commercially operated airport providing the necessary infrastructure and facilities for airlines offering scheduled air service. Scheduled airlines include Air Canada Jazz, Northwest Airlines and WestJet. These airlines provide daily services from Charlottetown to Halifax, Montreal and Toronto International airports with connections worldwide. Air cargo and air freight services are also available from the scheduled carriers but only on a space available basis. Conquest Vacations provides a Toronto flight Monday and Wednesday for the 2005 summer season.

Passenger and Baggage Volumes

Current forecasts estimate monthly enplaning passenger levels at approximately 7300 passengers per month (88,000 Enplaned passengers per year) with a projected peak hour demand of 255 passengers per hour. Baggage throughput volume for these passengers has been estimated at 264,000 pieces of baggage per year with a peak hour demand of 383 pieces.

History

The present airport site on the Brackley Point Road was not Charlottetown's first airfield. Flying was introduced to Charlottetown in 1912, when an aircraft landed at the exhibition grounds in the city, but it was not until 1931 that an airport became a reality for Charlottetown. It was known as Upton Field, located on land owned by Dr. J.S. Jenkins, Chief Physician at the Charlottetown Hospital and it and was licensed on January 16, 1932. It had two turf landing strips 2800 and 1600 feet long. The airport was leased to Canadian Airways Ltd. from October 9, 1932 to October 9, 1938. The licence remained in force until June 30, 1938.

In June 1938 the City of Charlottetown asked the Department of Transport for assistance in developing a municipal airport. Two sites were considered, Upton Airport and a 300 acre property at Sherwood Station on the Brackley Point Road. Because of the lack of space for future expansion at the Upton site, the federal government accepted the Brackley Point Road site. The City purchased the 300 acres in what was known as Central Royalty for $30,000. The City negotiated with the Provincial Government to bear half the cost of the site; the Province agreed to do so on condition that it receive half the profits derived from the airport revenue. The City would operate the airport.

In December 1939, the City Council offered free use of the airport to the Canadian Government for defence purposes until the conclusion of the war. The Government accepted, and on May 1, 1940 the Department of National Defence announced the establishment of No. 5 Bombing and Gunnery School at the Charlottetown Airport under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). Under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, Charlottetown Airport was operated by the Royal Air Force.

The field was officially handed over to the Royal Air Force on June 15, 1941 by which time, three hard surface runways had been constructed. In early 1941 the Airport was established as No. 31 General Reconnaissance School instead of the Bombing and Gunnery School as originally planned. This was changed because local lobster fishermen objected to the bombing range closing valuable lobster grounds on the North Shore between Covehead and St. Peters.

In February 1944 the Royal Canadian Air Force took over from the RAF and the station became known as No. 2 Air Navigation School. This continued until late January 1945 when local politicians were advised that the R.C.A.F. Navigation School at Charlottetown was being transferred to Summerside in February. This was distressing news to City Council, who felt that if the navigation school was transferred to Summerside, they would also lose the civil airport to that city, as there was a good possibility that the Charlottetown Airport would not continue to operate. After much discussion with Defence authorities in Ottawa, Charlottetown had the order rescinded.

On July 7, 1945 the B.C.A.T.P. School at the Charlottetown Airport officially closed. In a little over four years the School had graduated 1200 students. The training had been done in twin engine Anson aircraft. The students were from such places as England, France, Norway, Poland, Australia, New Zealand, United States and Canada. Approximately 200 to 300 air force personnel were on staff, along with 100 civilian workers at the time of the closing.

On February 1, 1946 the Department of Transport took over the Charlottetown Airport from the R.C.A.F. The Department of Transport operated the Charlottetown Airport from 1946 until February 28, 1999 at which time operational and financial responsibility was transferred, under a 60 year lease arrangement, to the Charlottetown Airport Authority Inc.

Charlottetown Airport   

Address: 250 Maple Hills Avenue, Suite 132
Charlottetown, PE
C1C 1N2

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