Aircraft movement statistics: Small airports – Annual report, 2018
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Released: 2019-06-13
In 2018, the number of take-offs and landings at 135 Canadian airports without air traffic control towers totalled 618,837 movements.
Ten airports accounted for 36.9% of the activity during the year: Peterborough, Ontario (45,800 movements); Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador (27,740); Trois-Rivières, Quebec (27,056); Red Lake, Ontario (22,413); Moosonee, Ontario (19,815); Barrie-Orillia-Lake Simcoe Regional, Ontario (19,390); Drummondville, Quebec (17,747); Comox, British Columbia (17,014); Island Lake, Manitoba (15,745); and Pickle Lake, Ontario (15,714).
There were 459,035 itinerant movements (flights from one airport to another) recorded at 116 airports without air traffic control towers in 2018. Goose Bay was the most active airport, reporting 27,740 take-offs and landings.
There were 132,621 local movements (flights that remain in the vicinity of the airport) recorded at 77 airports without air traffic control towers in 2018. Peterborough remained the busiest airport with 41,314 movements.
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Annual data for 2014 to 2018 may have been revised.
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Additional analytical information is now available in "Annual Aircraft Movements: Small airports - Airports Without NAV CANADA Towers or Flight Service Stations, 2018," as part of the service bulletin Aviation (51-004-X).
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