Pickle Lake Airport

Pickle Lake Airport
Pickle Lake Airport
	IATA: YPL; ICAO: CYPL; WMO: 71845;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Government of Ontario (Ministry of Transportation of Ontario)
Location	Pickle Lake, Ontario
Time zone	EST (UTC−05:00)
Elevation AMSL	1,268 ft / 386 m
Coordinates	51°26′47″N 090°12′48″W / 51.44639°N 90.21333°W
Map
	CYPL Location in Ontario
Runways
Statistics (2010)
Aircraft movements
Aircraft movements	18,698
	Source: Canada Flight Supplement; Environment Canada; Movements from Statistics Canada

Pickle Lake Airport (IATA: YPL, ICAO: CYPL) is located 0.7 nautical miles (1.3 km; 0.81 mi) southwest of Pickle Lake, Ontario, Canada.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
North Star Air	Thunder Bay
Wasaya Airways	Sioux Lookout

On 12 May 1977, Douglas R4D-1 C-FBKV of Patricia Air Services was written off in an accident. One person was killed.^[4]
On 11 May 1987, Douglas C-47B C-FADD of Air Manitoba crashed near Pickle Lake after a structural failure of the port wing. The aircraft was on a domestic cargo flight from Big Trout Lake Airport to Pickle Lake Airport. Both crew were killed.^[5]
On 17 March 2017, Basler BT-67 C-FKGL of Private Air crashed on take-off for Big Trout Airport, Ontario. All three crew survived.^[6]

^ Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 16 July 2020 to 0901Z 10 September 2020.
^ Synoptic/Metstat Station Information
^ Total aircraft movements by class of operation
^ "C-FBKV Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
^ "C-FADD Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
^ "C-FKGL accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 29 March 2017.

Past three hours METARs, SPECI and current TAFs for Pickle Lake Airport from Nav Canada as available.

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