La Grande Rivière Airport (IATA: YGL, ICAO: CYGL) is an airfield location about 30 km (19 mi) south southwest of Radisson, Quebec, Canada. It is used mostly to shuttle Hydro-Québec personnel between Radisson and the larger cities in Quebec, but it is also served by regular scheduled flights of Air Inuit.

La Grande Rivière Airport
IATA: YGL ICAO: CYGL WMO: 71827
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Société de Développement de la Baie James
Serves	Radisson, Quebec
Time zone	EST (UTC−05:00)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−04:00)
Elevation AMSL	640 ft / 195 m
Coordinates	53°37′31″N 077°42′15″W
Map
CYGL Location in Quebec
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 13/31 6,487 1,977 Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Aircraft movements 9,343
Sources: Canada Flight Supplement[1] Environment Canada[2] Movements from Statistics Canada[3]

Air Creebec also served the airport until March 2012.[4]

During the mid- and late 1970s, Nordair operated scheduled passenger flights nonstop to Montreal Dorval Airport (now Trudeau International Airport) with Boeing 737-200 jetliners on a weekly basis.[5]

Airlines and destinations

This section does not cite any sources. (January 2022)

Accidents and incidents

• On 15 November 1975, Douglas C-47 C-FCSC of Nordair was damaged beyond economic repair by fire at La Grande Rivière Airport.[6]

• On 1 August 1994, RAF Tornado GR1 ZD844 made an emergency landing at La Grande Rivière Airport. The aircraft had just had a midair collision with another RAF Tornado, ZA397, which then crashed into a nearby reservoir after the crew ejected.

See also

• La Grande-3 Airport
• La Grande-4 Airport

References

External links

• Accident history for YGL at Aviation Safety Network
• Past three hours METARs, SPECI and current TAFs for La Grande Rivière Airport from Nav Canada as available.

На других языках

[es] Aeropuerto de La Grande Rivière

[fr] Aéroport de Radisson Grande-Rivière