Churchill Falls Airport is owned and operated by Churchill Falls Labrador Corporation Limited.

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provides regularly scheduled passenger service at the airport, which handled about 1,400 passengers annually over between 2000 and 2003. The airport is located northwest of

Churchill Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1 ...

, Canada. Four small structures are the only buildings, as the airport has no formal terminal.

Airlines and destinations

Historical airline service

The airport had scheduled passenger jet service during the 1970s operated by

Eastern Provincial Airways Eastern Provincial Airways, also known as EPA, was an airline that operated in Atlantic and eastern Canada. At its peak, the carrier operated jet service with Boeing 737-200 aircraft connecting many communities that today only have scheduled p ...

(EPA) with nonstop

Boeing 737-200 The Boeing 737 is a narrow-body aircraft produced by Boeing at its Renton Factory in Washington. Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the twinjet retains the 707 fuselage width and six abreast seating with two u ...

jetliner flights to Goose Bay and

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with connecting service to Halifax and other cities in eastern Canada. In 1970, EPA was operating round trip 737 service six days a week on a routing of St. John's - Gander - Deer Lake - Goose Bay - Churchill Falls - Wabush - Montreal.

Quebecair Quebecair was a Canadian airline that operated from 1947 until 1986. Quebecair was headquartered in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, now a part of Montreal. History Early years Quebecair began as Rimouski Airlines in 1947 and flew under that name un ...

was serving the airport with BAC One-Eleven jets in 1972 with a round trip routing of Churchill Falls - Wabush - Sept-Iles - Quebec City - Montreal operated twice a week. Quebecair also served Churchill Falls with

Fairchild F-27 The Fairchild F-27 and Fairchild Hiller FH-227 were versions of the Fokker F27 Friendship twin-engined turboprop passenger aircraft manufactured under license by Fairchild Hiller in the United States. The Fairchild F-27 was similar to the standa ...

turboprop aircraft during the late 1960s and early 1970s.http://www.timetableimages.com, June 8, 1969 & June 11, 1973 Quebecair system timetables

References

Transport Canada article

External links

Page about this airport
on COPA's ''Places to Fly'' airport directory {{authority control Certified airports in Newfoundland and Labrador