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Rivière-du-Loup Airport (CYRI) is a small regional aerodrome serving the town of Rivière-du-Loup on the south shore of the St Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. It offers a single long hard-surfaced runway capable of handling aircraft as large as a Dash-8, Boeing 737 or Airbus A320, making it a useful and interesting stop for visiting simulator pilots flying in eastern Quebec.
Rivière-du-Loup Airport, identified as CYRI, serves the town of the same name in Quebec, Canada. It is a modest regional field with a single, unusually long paved runway, and its capacity to accept aircraft up to Dash-8, Boeing 737 or Airbus A320 size makes it a notable destination for a field of its type, offering simulator pilots the chance to fly larger types into a quiet regional strip.
The airport lies at the southwest edge of the city limits of Rivière-du-Loup, roughly ten kilometres from the town centre, on the south shore of the St Lawrence River in Quebec. Traffic in the area is worked by Montreal Centre on 125.1 MHz, with aerodrome traffic coordinated locally on the aerodrome traffic frequency (ATF)/UNICOM of 122.8 MHz.
CYRI has one physical runway, 05/23, aligned northeast-southwest. It is 5,976 feet long with a hard surface and is lit; the reciprocal direction, runway 23, is essentially the same length at 5,975 feet, also hard-surfaced and lit. There is no ILS at the field.
Pilots should monitor Montreal Centre on 125.1 MHz for the surrounding airspace, and use the aerodrome traffic frequency/UNICOM of 122.8 MHz for calls in the vicinity of the field, as there is no air traffic control tower.
As an uncontrolled aerodrome, arriving and departing traffic should make position reports on the ATF/UNICOM frequency of 122.8 MHz to coordinate with other aircraft in the vicinity.
The airport sits about ten kilometres from downtown Rivière-du-Loup at the southwest end of the city limits, and its runway is wide and long enough to accommodate aircraft as large as a Dash-8, Boeing 737 or Airbus A320, including aircraft carrying up to about 150 passengers. Prior permission may be required for some operations.
