Langley Regional Airport is located in
Langley Township
The Township of Langley is a district municipality immediately east of the City of Surrey in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It extends south from the Fraser River to the Canada–United States border, and west of the City of Abbotsford. ...
,
British Columbia,
Canada. It serves mostly
general aviation, and also provided
scheduled passenger service to the
Victoria Airport Water Aerodrome via
Harbour Air Seaplanes before service was ended on May 20, 2011.
operations are a major part of Langley Airport's traffic; the airport has three
helipad
A helipad is a landing area or platform for helicopters and powered lift aircraft.
While helicopters and powered lift aircraft are able to operate on a variety of relatively flat surfaces, a fabricated helipad provides a clearly marked hard s ...
s.
The airport offers fuel services and extensive
hangar space, and hosts the
Canadian Museum of Flight.
General information
The airport has two asphalt
runways, one long and the other . These relatively short runways make it a good airport for
flight training
Flight training is a course of study used when learning to pilot an aircraft. The overall purpose of primary and intermediate flight training is the acquisition and honing of basic airmanship skills.
Flight training can be conducted under a str ...
purposes because a pilot who trains on short runways is likely to be more capable. There is also a public road near each end of the paved runway (01/19) resulting in relatively short "Takeoff Distance Available" (TODA).
Due to the proximity of residential areas, runway 19 has a departure noise-abatement procedure that requires a 30-degree turn, and runway 25 has a departure noise-abatement procedure that requires a 50-degree turn.
Langley radio frequencies are 119.00 for the
control tower, 124.50 for
Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS), and 121.90 for ground service.
The airport is home to 54 businesses, including many helicopter operators and fixed-wing and rotary-wing flight training units. Consequently the airport has a high volume of training traffic.
History
In 1945, at the end of
World War II, the township of Langley leased the former
Royal Canadian Air Force airport from the federal government before purchasing the airport outright in 1967 for $24,300. Since then, the airport has been in continuous operation.
See also
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List of airports in the Lower Mainland
References
External links
Airport Authority website
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Certified airports in British Columbia
Airports in Greater Vancouver
Transport in Langley, British Columbia (district municipality)