Edmonton City Centre Airport

Edmonton City Centre Airport
Blatchford Field
City Centre Airport control tower in 2010
Summary
Airport typeDefunct
OwnerCity of Edmonton
OperatorEdmonton Airports
LocationBlatchford, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Opened1927 (1927)
ClosedNovember 30, 2013 (2013-11-30)
Time zoneMST (UTC−07:00)
 • Summer (DST)MDT (UTC−06:00)
Elevation AMSL2,202 ft / 671 m
Coordinates53°34′19″N 113°31′10″W / 53.57194°N 113.51944°W / 53.57194; -113.51944
Map
YXD / CYXD is located in Edmonton
YXD / CYXD
YXD / CYXD
Location within Edmonton
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
12/30 5,870 1,789 Asphalt
16/34 5,700 1,737 Asphalt
Statistics (2012)
Aircraft Movements55,863
Sources: Canada Flight Supplement[1]
Edmonton Airports[2]
Movements from Statistics Canada[3]

Edmonton City Centre Airport (ECCA), (IATA: YXD, ICAO: CYXD) was an airport within the city of Edmonton, in the Canadian province of Alberta.

It was bordered by Yellowhead Trail to the north, Kingsway to the south, 121 Street to the west, and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) and Jefferson armouries to the east. It encompassed approximately 58 ha (144 acres) of land just north of the city centre of Edmonton.

The airport was originally called Blatchford Field, named for former mayor Kenneth Alexander Blatchford. His son, Howard ("Cowboy") Blatchford, became a noted fighter pilot in World War II. It later was known as the Edmonton Municipal Airport, then as Edmonton Industrial Airport,[4] and then Edmonton City Centre Airport (ECCA), finally ending as Blatchford Field at Edmonton City Centre Airport. Over the years, the IATA airport code "YXD" continued to be used for the airport by all of the airlines serving the airfield.

The airport was closed in November 2013, and as of 2018, the land was being redeveloped by the City of Edmonton as a planned community called Blatchford.

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