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Saint John Airport (CYSJ/YSJ) lies about 8 nautical miles east-northeast of Uptown Saint John, New Brunswick, on the eastern side of Loch Lomond Road in an area once known as Clover Valley. It is a National Airports System field with two paved runways, an ILS approach, and status as a Canada Border Services Agency airport of entry, making it a useful stop for VFR pilots transiting southern New Brunswick.
Saint John Airport serves the city of Saint John and the wider Greater Saint John metropolitan area, as well as the southern region of New Brunswick. Owned by Transport Canada and operated since 1999 by the private non-profit corporation Saint John Airport Inc, it forms part of the National Airports System and is classified by Nav Canada as an airport of entry, with Canada Border Services Agency officers on hand able to process aircraft carrying no more than 120 passengers.
The airport sits roughly 8 nautical miles (about 15 kilometres) east-northeast of Uptown Saint John, on the eastern side of Loch Lomond Road in an area historically known as Clover Valley, previously farmland and forest before the airport was built there.
Saint John has two paved physical runways. Runway 05/23 is 7,002 feet long, hard-surfaced, lit and equipped with an ILS. Runway 14/32 is 5,093 feet long, hard-surfaced and lit. Field elevation is 315 feet.
The airport uses a mandatory frequency (MF) of 118.5 MHz for air-to-ground (A/G) communications, which also serves as the RDO frequency. Moncton Centre provides area control on 124.3 MHz. Runway 05/23 is served by an ILS.
Plans for a Saint John airport date back to 1928, when the city was chosen as the site for New Brunswick's first municipal airport, with an initial $100,000 allocated for development. The Saint John Municipal Airport at Millidgeville served the city from 1928 to 1951. Growing aircraft traffic and size during the Second World War convinced city councillors that a larger field was needed, and in 1943 a search commission led to an engineering survey of the current site east of the city. The 719-hectare site was purchased by the city on 26 February 1946 for $200,000. Construction of the new airport began in March 1949, though the agreement between the provincial government and the city was not finalised until 20 March 1950. The original Millidgeville airport closed in December 1951 and its land was later redeveloped for suburban housing. Saint John Airport officially opened on 8 January 1952, though several aircraft, including at least one scheduled flight, had already used the field beforehand; the opening ceremony included preparations for a large air show the following spring. Construction had cost between five and six million dollars. In 1976 a Douglas C-49J (registration C-FHPM) of Atlantic Central Airlines was damaged beyond economic repair at the airport.
Saint John Airport continues to operate as a National Airports System field and airport of entry, staffed by the Canada Border Services Agency for aircraft with up to 120 passengers. It is run by the non-profit Saint John Airport Inc, which describes its role as serving the air travel needs of residents of southwestern New Brunswick.
