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Gimli Industrial Park Airport

Gimli, Canada

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Elevation

753 ft

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Location

Gimli · MB · Canada

Position

50.628°, -97.043° · 753 ft elev.

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Historic Manitoba airfield serving Gimli's industrial corridor.

Opened

1942

Location

Gimli, Canada

Gimli Industrial Park Airport (IATA: YGM, ICAO: CYGM) is a small public airport located in Gimli, Manitoba, Canada, on the western shore of Lake Winnipeg approximately 75 kilometres north of Winnipeg. The airport occupies the site of the former RCAF Station Gimli, a major Royal Canadian Air Force training base that operated during and after World War II. Today the airport primarily serves general aviation, industrial, and charter operations rather than scheduled commercial airline service. It is perhaps best known internationally as the site of the 1983 'Gimli Glider' incident, in which a Boeing 767 ran out of fuel mid-flight and made an emergency deadstick landing on the former runway.

Getting to & from

The airport is accessible primarily by private vehicle via Manitoba Highway 9, with no scheduled public transit service.

Notable facts

›Built as RCAF Station Gimli in 1942, originally used for Commonwealth Air Training Plan pilot training.
›Site of the famous 1983 'Gimli Glider' incident involving Air Canada Flight 143, a Boeing 767 that landed without engine power after fuel exhaustion.
›The runway used in the Gimli Glider emergency had been partially converted to a motorsport track at the time of the incident.
›The airport transitioned to civilian industrial use after the RCAF base closed in 1971.
›Elevation is approximately 754 feet (230 metres) above sea level.

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