Gimli Industrial Park Airport (YGM, CYGM)

Airport weather

🔗 Tue, 25 Aug 2020
— @david at Gimli Industrial Park Airport, Canada Reply

While the airport doesn't have an official METAR, a member mentioned this in a problem report:

Gimli has an AWOS. It is at www.gimliairportawos.com

Garman pilot uses CXGH as a Metar for CYGM. It is the Environment Canada weather at the town of Gimli 1.7 nm from CYGM

Gimli Glider

🔗 Thu, 24 Jan 2008
— @david at Gimli Industrial Park Airport, Canada Reply

This is where the "Gimli Glider", an Air Canada Boeing 767, made its famous power-off emergency landing in 1983:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

Air Canada retired the 767 from its fleet nearly 25 years later, on January 24, 2008, sending it to a bone yard in the Mojave Desert:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2008/01/24/gimli-glider.html