Kuujjuaq Airport

Kuujjuaq Airport
IATA: YVP – ICAO: CYVP – WMO: 71906
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Kativik Regional Government Administration régionale Kativik
Location		Kuujjuaq, Quebec
Elevation AMSL		129 ft / 39 m
Coordinates		58°05′46″N 068°25′37″W / 58.09611°N 68.42694°W / 58.09611; -68.42694Coordinates: 58°05′46″N 068°25′37″W / 58.09611°N 68.42694°W / 58.09611; -68.42694
Map
CYVP Location in Quebec
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
07/25	6,000	1,829	Asphalt
13/31	5,000	1,524	Gravel
Statistics (2010)
Aircraft movements			12,485
Sources: Canada Flight Supplement[1] Environment Canada[2] Movements from Statistics Canada[3]

Kuujjuaq Airport, (IATA: YVP, ICAO: CYVP), is located 1.5 NM (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) southwest of Kuujjuaq, Quebec, Canada.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Inuit	Aupaluk, Inukjuak, Kangiqsualujjuaq, Kangirsuk, Puvirnituq, Tasiujaq, Wabush, Sept-Iles connect to Montreal, Quebec City
First Air	Iqaluit, Montreal-Trudeau,[4] Ottawa [cargo]

History

During World War II, the United States established a weather/radio station at this site, code-named "Crystal I". It was one of three "Crystal" weather sites in the Canadian Arctic Region, Frobisher Bay Air Base (now Iqaluit Airport), Northwest Territories being "Crystal II", and a station on Padloping Island being "Crystal III". A detachment of the 8th Weather Squadron, Air Transport Command (ATC) took up residence at the station on 1 October 1942.^[5] The initial mission of the Crystal sites was to provide long-range weather information to the combat forces then building up in the United Kingdom.

Beginning in 1943, the North Atlantic Division, ATC, constructed an airstrip at Crystal I as part of the proposed Crimson Route for ferrying aircraft between the United States and Great Britain. Crystal I was planned to be a transport hub between the Eastern Route, which originated at Presque Isle Army Airfield, Maine and the Central Route, which originated at Romulus Army Airfield (Detroit Airport), Michigan. From Crytstal I, the aircraft would be ferried across over Baffin Island; Greenland; Iceland and delivered to Scotland. The development of the Mid-Atlantic Transport through the Azores led to the cancellation of the Crystal Route project in 1943. The United States presence at Crystal I was reduced to a skeleton weather squadron; which ended in 1945, and the facilities were turned over to the Canadian government.^[6]

Nav Canada opened a $7-million air traffic control facility near the airport. The radar station allows controllers in Montreal to monitor the steady stream of transatlantic air traffic over northern Quebec^[7]

A large-scale terminal expansion project was carried out at the airport between 2006 to 2008. The $14.9 million project included the expansion of the airport apron and the construction of a brand new 1,225m² terminal to replace the cramped building built in 1972. The building, designed by architect Alain Fournier, received a silver certification under the Canadian Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.^[7]

References

1. ^ Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 20 October 2011 to 0901Z 15 December 2011
2. ^ Synoptic/Metstat Station Information
3. ^ Total aircraft movements by class of operation — NAV CANADA flight service stations
4. ^ First Air interactive weather/route map
5. ^ USAFHRA Document 00076387
6. ^ AFHRA Document 00076350
7. ^ ^{a b} "Kuujjuaq Airport Terminal Expansion, Quebec, Canada". AirportTechnology.com. http://www.airport-technology.com/projects/kuujjuaq/. Retrieved May 8, 2011. 

External links

• Past three hours METARs, SPECI and current TAFs for Kuujjuaq Airport from NAV CANADA as available.