Prince Albert (Glass Field) Airport is located northeast of

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, Saskatchewan, Canada.

History

RCAF Station Prince Albert

The airport was originally opened near Prince Albert on 22 July 1940 under the

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as No. 6 Elementary Flying Training School, with Relief Landing Fields located near Hagen and Emma Lake. The school closed on 15 November 1944. From 17 March 1941 to 11 November 1942, the station also hosted No. 6 Air Observer School. Not much remains of the former No. 6 EFTS. A monument was erected to pay tribute to the 17 airmen and one civilian who died in training accidents at the school.

RCAF Aerodrome Prince Albert c.1942

In approximately 1942 the aerodrome was listed at with a variation of 20 degrees east and elevation of . Three serviceable runways were listed as follows:

Relief landing field – Hagen

A relief landing field for RCAF Station Prince Albert was located approximately 18 miles southeast. The site was located west of the hamlet of Hagen, Saskatchewan. The relief field was a square, turf, all way field measuring 2100' x 2100'. In approximately 1942 the aerodrome was listed at with a variation of 20 degrees east and an unlisted elevation. A review of Google Maps satellite imagery on 7 June 2018 shows no details indicating an airfield at the listed coordinates.

Name

This airport is now named for

Floyd Glass Floyd Glass was born in Saskatchewan, Canada. He was an aviation entrepreneur who founded Athabaska Airways in 1955. Prince Albert (Glass Field) Airport Prince Albert (Glass Field) Airport is located northeast of Prince Albert, Saskatchew ...

, who learned to fly in the late 1930s, then served as a military flying training instructor during the Second World War. Postwar, he was the first general manager of the provincial

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. He resigned from this post, flew briefly with British Columbia's

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, then returned to Saskatchewan and in 1955 formed his own firm,

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. Glass died in 1999.

Airlines and destinations

Rise Air operates charters for staff working at northern mine sites for Cameco and Orano.

References

External links

Official website

Page about this airport
on COPA's ''Places to Fly'' airport directory *

Museum - www.airmuseum.ca
Bruce Forsyth's Canadian Military History Page
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