Prince Albert (Glass Field) Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Prince Albert (Glass Field) Airport
IATA = YPA
ICAO = CYPA
type = Public
owner =
operator = City of Prince Albert
city-served =
location = Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
elevation-f = 1,405
elevation-m = 428
coordinates = coord|53|12|51|N|105|40|22|W|type:airport|display=inline
website = [http://www.princealbertairport.com www.princealbertairport.com]
r1-number = 08/26
r1-length-f = 5,000
r1-length-m = 1,524
r1-surface = Asphalt
r2-number = 16/34
r2-length-f = 2,500
r2-length-m = 762
r2-surface = Turf
stat-year = 2007
stat1-header = Aircraft Movements
stat1-data = 19,747
footnotes = Sources: Canada Flight SupplementCFS]
Statistics from Transport Canada. [http://www.tc.gc.ca/pol/EN/Report/TP577/pdf/TP577_07.pdf Aircraft Movement Statistics: NAV CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations: Annual Report 2007] ]

Prince Albert (Glass Field) Airport Airport codes|YPA|CYPA is located convert|1|NM|abbr=on|lk=in northeast of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada.

This airport is named for Floyd Glass, who learned to fly in the late 1930s, then served as a military flying training instructor during the Second World War. Postwar, he was the first general manager of the provincial Crown corporation Saskatchewan Government Airways. He resigned from this post, flew briefly with British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Airways, then returned to Saskatchewan and in 1955 formed his own firm, Athabaska Airways, which still exists under the name "Transwest Air". Glass died in 2000.

Airlines

*Transwest Air (Fond-du-lac, La Ronge, Points North, Regina, Saskatoon, Stony Rapids, Uranium City and Wollaston)
*West Wind Aviation (Charters for staff working at Cameco Cigar and McArthur River mines)
**Pronto Airways (LaRonge, Points North, Stony Rapids, Saskatoon, Uranium City and Wollaston) [ http://www.bookpronto.com/index.php?p=3796#pa1 Airline Schedule ]

References

External links

* [http://www.princealbertairport.com Official web site]
* [http://www.copanational.org/PlacesToFly/airport_view.php?pr_id=11&ap_id=968 Page about this airport] on COPA's "Places to Fly" airport directory