Prince Albert Prince Albert Airport Information
Here is some information about Prince Albert Airport:
Prince Albert (Glass Field) Airport (IATA: YPA) is located 1.9 km (1.2 mi) northeast of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Prince Albert (Glass Field) Airport was originally opened near Prince Albert on 22 July 1940 under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan as No. 6 EFTS, with a Relief Landing Field located near Hagan. The school closed on 15 November 1944.
This airport is now named for Floyd Glass, 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 Crown corporation Saskatchewan Government Airways. He resigned from this post, flew briefly with British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Airways, then returned to Saskatchewan and in 1955 formed his own firm, Athabaska Airways, which still exists under the name "Transwest Air". Glass died in 2000.
Here are some of the major Airlines that service Prince Albert Airport:
- Pronto Airways
- Transwest Air
- West Wind Aviation
The above mentioned information is taken from Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albert_%28Glass_Field%29_Airport.