Aviation
Monthly Aircraft Movements: Small airports - Airports without NAV CANADA Towers or Flight Service Stations, March 2017

Analysis

Take-offs and landings at 114 Canadian airports without air traffic control towers reached a total of 40,085 movements in March. Ten airports accounted for 40% of the month’s activity: Peterborough, Ontario (2,968 movements), Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador (2,480), Drummondville, Quebec (2,084), Red Lake, Ontario (1,748), Trois-Rivières, Quebec (1,344), Comox, British Columbia (1,264), Moosonee, Ontario (1,159), Pickle Lake, Ontario (1,050), Island Lake, Manitoba (1,015) and St. Theresa Point, Manitoba (958).

Total aircraft movements for the 112 airports for which year-over-year comparisons were possible decreased from 41,861 to 39,648 in March 2017 as 67 airports reported fewer movements. The largest declines were recorded at the following airports: Peterborough (-394 movements), Collingwood, Ontario (-379) and Pickle Lake (-367). Among those airports with increases, the largest gains were reported at Drummondville (+1,315) and Goose Bay (+143).

In March 2017, there were 30,126 itinerant movements (flights from one airport to another) reported by 97 airports with Goose Bay (2,480 movements) and Red Lake (1,556) recording the largest numbers.

Forty-two airports reported 8,195 local movements (flights that remain in the vicinity of the airport). Peterborough remained the most active site with 2,615 take-offs and landings, representing 32% of the total local movements reported.

Factors which may have influenced the data

1. Aggregate data only are available for the following 19 airports reported by Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation:

• Berens River
• Bloodvein River
• Brochet
• Cross Lake
• God’s Lake Narrows
• God’s River
• Ilford
• Lac Brochet
• Little Grand Rapids
• Oxford House
• Pikwitonei
• Poplar River
• Pukatawagan
• Red Sucker Lake
• Shamattawa
• South Indian Lake
• Tadoule Lake
• Thicket Portage
• York Landing

2. Aggregate data only are available for the following 12 airports reported by the Kativik Regional Government in Quebec:

• Akulivik
• Aupaluk
• Inukjuak
• Ivujivik
• Kangiqsualujjuaq
• Kangiqsujuaq
• Kangirsuk
• Puvirnituq
• Quaqtaq
• Salluit
• Tasiujaq
• Umiujaq

3. Aggregate data only are available for Tillsonburg, Ontario.

4. When comparing monthly data for current year versus previous year, please note that:

• a) Data for the following airports were included in the report for March 2016 but were not available at the time of the release of this report.
  
  Aupaluk, Quebec
  Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories
  Ivujivik, Quebec
  Kangiqsujuaq, Quebec
  Lac Brochet, Manitoba
  Puvirnituq, Quebec
  Shamattawa, Manitoba
  Umiujaq, Quebec
  Watson Lake, Yukon
  
  
• b) Data for the following airports were included in March 2017 but not in March 2016.
  
  Fort Frances Municipal, Ontario
  Grise Fiord, Nunavut