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Airport type
  
Public

Location
  
Elliot Lake

Elevation AMSL
  
1,086 ft / 331 m

Code
  
YEL

Province
  
Ontario

Owner/Operator
  
City of Elliot Lake

Time zone
  
EST (UTC−05:00)

12/30
  
4,495

Elevation
  
331 m

Elliot Lake Municipal Airport

Address
  
Elliot Lake, ON P5A 2S5, Canada

Similar
  
Elliot Lake Secondary School, The City of Elliot Lake, Elliot Lake Library, Ontario Court of Justice, Standard (The)

Elliot Lake Municipal Airport, (IATA: YEL, ICAO: CYEL), is a registered aerodrome located 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) southeast of the city of Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada.

Contents

Facilities

The airport consists of a small brick single storey terminal building. Other than a small waiting area there are no other services inside. Food is available for pilots only.

To the west of the terminal are storage sheds and hangars for general aviation aircraft.

Tenants

There are no schedule airlines operating to and from this airport, but facilities exists to handle them.

Current tenants include:

  • Air Bravo – air ambulance operator based in Blind River, Ontario and flies to and from Elliot Lake
  • Mining company transport – 2 flights transport to Red Lake every two weeks
  • Dynamex – logistics and freight services operator flies to and from Elliot Lake on contracts to clients in the area
  • Private flight for an ear/nose/throat specialist who flies into Elliot Lake once a week
  • Hope Air – provides free medical transport to those in need in the area

    • The closest airport with scheduled passenger services is Sault Ste. Marie Airport and Greater Sudbury Airport.

    General

  • Magnetic Variation: 9° west

    • The aerodrome is operated by the City of Elliot Lake and is registered by Transport Canada.

    Runways

  • Runway 12/30: 4,495 by 100 ft (1,370 by 30 m), paved, lighted, PAPI type 2 approach lighting at both ends

    • Communications

  • Unicom/ATF: Elliot Lake Unicom/Traffic 123.0 MHz
  • PAL: Toronto Centre 135.4 MHz
  • NDB: Elliot Lake (YEL), 276 kHz, 2.7 nautical miles (5.0 km; 3.1 mi) 123° to airport

    • References

    Elliot Lake Municipal Airport Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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