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Charlottetown Airport (IATA: YYG, ICAO: CYYG) is located 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) north [2] of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The airport is currently run by the Charlottetown Airport Authority, is owned by Transport Canada and forms part of the National Airports System. [1]
This is a list of airports in Prince Edward Island. It includes all Nav Canada certified and registered water and land airports, aerodromes and heliports in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. [1] [2] Airport names in italics are part of the National Airports System. [3] Prince Edward Island
As defined by Transport Canada, an international airport: . means any airport designated by the Contracting State, in whose territory it is situated, as an airport of entry and departure for international commercial air traffic, where the formalities incident to customs, immigration, public health, animal and plant quarantine and similar procedures are carried out.
Detailed map of Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island (PEI) consists of the capital city Charlottetown , as well as urban towns Cornwall and Stratford and a developing urban fringe . A smaller urban area surrounds Summerside Harbour, situated on the southern shore 40 kilometres (25 mi) west of Charlottetown Harbour, and consists primarily ...
RCAF Station Charlottetown was a Royal Canadian Air Force station located in Sherwood, Prince Edward Island. Today's Charlottetown Airport maintains a remnant of the airfield's runways near its general aviation terminal, but all buildings and most infrastructure have been removed.
Route 1 is a 120-kilometre (75 mi) long provincial highway that serves as the Prince Edward Island section of the Trans-Canada Highway. Route 1 traverses the southern shores of Prince Edward Island, from the Confederation Bridge in Borden-Carleton to the Wood Islands ferry dock, and bypasses the provincial capital, Charlottetown. It is an ...
This compares with 4.4% in Prince Edward Island, and 5.0% for Canada overall. 21.0% of the resident population in Charlottetown are of retirement age compared with 21.2% in Prince Edward Island and 19.0% in Canada. The median age is 40.8 years of age compared to 44.0 years of age for Prince Edward Island and 41.6 years of age for all of Canada.
The airport was served by Eastern Provincial Airways during the 1960s and early 1970s which operated nonstop flights to Moncton and the Magdalen Islands as well as direct service via a stop at the Charlottetown Airport to Halifax, Sydney, Deer Lake, Gander and St. John's with Douglas DC-3 prop aircraft and Handley Page Dart Herald turboprop aircraft.