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Weyburn Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

Time zone
  
CST (UTC−06:00)

06/24
  
3,016

Province
  
Saskatchewan

Operator
  
Town of Weyburn

Elevation AMSL
  
1,934 ft / 589 m

Elevation
  
589 m

Weyburn Airport

Location
  
Weyburn No. 67, near Weyburn, Saskatchewan

Weyburn airport mock emergency


Weyburn Airport, (TC LID: CJE3), is located 2.2 nautical miles (4.1 km; 2.5 mi) northeast of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada.

During World War II the aerodrome was constructed in 1941 as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan graduated 1,055 pilots and recorded more than 180,000 hours of flight time over the before being abandoned on 30 June 1944. Other uses included a children's physiological hospital in the 1950s and the home of the Western Christian College from 1957 until 1989. Some of the original hangars are still in existence.

Two runways remain in operation, while runway 18/36 is abandoned.

References

Weyburn Airport Wikipedia