Montreal, CA 🇨🇦 Closed Airport
CA-1112
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CA-QC
GPS Code: Not available
Local Code: Not available
Location: 45.47739° N, -73.54388° E
Continent: NA
Type: Closed Airport
Keywords: YMY CYMY XYMY
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Taxis are typically available outside the arrival terminals.
Multiple rental car companies may have counters at this airport.
Buses or trains may connect the airport to the city center.
This was the site of a experimental airport set up as a federally funded research project in the 1970s to research the economic feasibility of short take-off and landing air service in downtown airports. Air Transit was an an airline operating shuttle flights from downtown Montreal to downtown Ottawa (at Rockliffe, CYRO) using specially modified de Havilland Twin Otters (series 300) that had improved spoilers and sophisticated avionics. The approach and take-off path were quite steep, as they had to clear the Victoria Bridge to the east and the power lines to the west. The crews were provided by Air Canada.
I flew once from here to Ottawa. The arriving terminal in Ottawa was the building which is now the entrance hall of the museum. I guess the economics didn't work out, as the STOLport concept didn't catch on.
It's too bad that this airport wasn't kept as a downtown GA field, as it conveniently located and isolated from residential areas by freeways, factories, and the St-Lawrence river. It's now the site of movie studios and a technology park.