Montréal/Saint-Hubert Airport

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The airport Saint- Hubert (IATA: YHU, ICAO: CYHU ) is an airport located in the Canadian province of Québec. It is located in Saint -Hubert, a suburb of Longueuil, approximately 16 kilometers east of the center of Montreal. The airport serves almost exclusively of general aviation and, despite a lack of passenger traffic measured on the flight movements of the fifth largest airport in the country.

Description

The airport is located on the outskirts of Longueuil, close to the Autoroute 30 It has facilities for aircraft maintenance, flight training and air traffic control training. In addition, various companies in the aviation industry have settled in the vicinity. Immediately at the airport borders the John H. Chapman Space Centre Canadian Space Agency and the national airline technician school.

The airport is divided into a civil and a military part. The former air force base CFB Saint- Hubert Royal Canadian Air Force has its operation, however, largely ceased, is still stationed a helicopter squadron.

Saint- Hubert is classified by NAV CANADA as a customs airport and is therefore controlled by the Canada Border Services Agency. The only airline that flies to Saint- Hubert regularly is Pascan Aviation, which offers regional connections in the province of Quebec and Labrador with small aircraft.

History

Saint- Hubert is the oldest airport in the Montreal region. It was opened in 1928 by the Canadian Defence and immediately used for military purposes. In the same year, the company Canadian Colonial Airways took to the civilian air traffic. In 1936, the airport became the property of the newly created Department of Transportation. Only four years later took it over the Canadian Air Force to train after the outbreak of World War II fighter pilots. Civilian aircraft was relocated to Montreal -Dorval new airport.

In 1968, the airport again to the Ministry of Transport, which freed him for general aviation. With the closure of the airport Cartierville in 1970 the volume of traffic increased greatly, the same year Pratt & Whitney Canada opened a service center. In October, 1970, at the height of the October crisis, the police found in a parked car at the airport the slain of the Front de libération du Québec Vice- Premier Pierre Laporte. In 1997, the air base was closed for the most part. As a result of the new airport policy of the Canadian government, the airport Saint- Hubert went into the possession of a private company Développement Aéroport Saint- Hubert de Longueuil ( DASH -L) in 2004.

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