Once upon a time this is where helicopters from nearby CFB Gagetown practised touchdown autorotations. We used grass/packed snow areas alongside the runways. Is this still what folks do, or do you still use the "new" autorotation area at the Gagetown heliport?
Fredericton is currently a mandatory-frequency (MF) airport with a flight services station. It's the busiest non-towered airport in Canada, and Nav Canada has announced that the airport will be getting a control tower (presumably class D) in December 2009 with 12 full-time controllers:
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Home of the Fredericton Flying Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Fredericton Airport, Canada Reply
https://www.frederictonflyingclub.com/
Taxi
🔗 Fri, 02 Oct 2015
— @david at Fredericton Airport, Canada Reply
During my visit (1–2 October 2015), it was $20 (US $15) for a taxi into downtown Fredericton.
Capital Airways (FBO)
🔗 Tue, 29 Sep 2015
— @david at Fredericton Airport, Canada Reply
Information as of 2015-09-29:
Location: off taxiway D, just before it intersects with C.
Hours: 0800-1800 local
Phone: +1-506-446-3588 (after hours +1-506-238-3653)
Frequency: 122.875 MhZ
Ramp fee: (for a small, single-engine plane) $15/night, first night waived if you purchase fuel.
Early History
🔗 Mon, 11 Oct 2010
— Anonymous Flyer at Fredericton Airport, Canada Reply
First Airline service was as early as Apr. 1951. Maritime Central Airways (MCA) flying Lockheed10's on the mail run
YQM/YFC/YSJ.
Trans Canada Airlines (TCA) started its first flight into YFC on Feb 1 1952, when Capt CM Harper and crew landed their DC3 .
Autorotations
🔗 Fri, 18 Jun 2010
— @AwakeAndUnafraid at Fredericton Airport, Canada Reply
Once upon a time this is where helicopters from nearby CFB Gagetown practised touchdown autorotations. We used grass/packed snow areas alongside the runways. Is this still what folks do, or do you still use the "new" autorotation area at the Gagetown heliport?
Control tower coming in December 2009
🔗 Thu, 09 Jul 2009
— @david at Fredericton Airport, Canada Reply
Fredericton is currently a mandatory-frequency (MF) airport with a flight services station. It's the busiest non-towered airport in Canada, and Nav Canada has announced that the airport will be getting a control tower (presumably class D) in December 2009 with 12 full-time controllers:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2009/07/09/air-traffic.html