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Saint-Léonard Airport is a small, uncontrolled aerodrome serving the town of Saint-Léonard in northwestern New Brunswick, notable chiefly for having been saved from closure and purchased by J.D. Irving Ltd. after the regional airport authority moved to shut it down. It offers a single hard-surfaced, lit runway and operates as an ATF/UNICOM field, making it a straightforward VFR destination for visiting pilots in the region.
Saint-Léonard Airport sits beside the town of Saint-Léonard in northwestern New Brunswick, Canada. It is a modest general aviation field with a single paved runway, once operated by the Madawaska Airport Authority and now owned by forestry and shipping conglomerate J.D. Irving Ltd. Its chief interest to a visiting pilot lies in its uncomplicated uncontrolled operation and its recent history as a community airport rescued from closure.
The airfield lies in uncontrolled airspace over Saint-Léonard in northwestern New Brunswick, close to the Quebec border region. It sits at coordinates 47.1573 N, -67.8363 W. A nearby field at Edmundston, close to the Quebec border, was for a period favoured over Saint-Léonard by the regional airport authority, but Saint-Léonard's more central position for communities in the area was cited as a reason for keeping it open.
The field has a single physical runway, 18/36, oriented north-south. It is 3,977 feet long, has a hard surface, and is lit.
Traffic can be worked on the Aerodrome Traffic Frequency/UNICOM at 122.7 MHz. An area control frequency of 124.75 MHz (Boston Center) is also listed for the airport. There is no ILS approach at the field.
The Saint-Léonard airport was for a time operated by the Madawaska Airport Authority, which in 2015 announced it could no longer afford to run two airports in the region and intended to shift its operational focus to the smaller field at Edmundston, near the Quebec border. Community leaders and J.D. Irving Ltd. opposed the move, arguing that Saint-Léonard was more centrally located for the communities of northwestern New Brunswick than the border-adjacent Edmundston field, and issued a legal warning to the City of Edmundston and the airport authority to halt any closure or dismantling of the facility. The dispute was ultimately resolved when J.D. Irving Ltd. purchased the Saint-Léonard airport outright for 100,000 dollars, securing its continued operation.
Saint-Léonard Airport remains an active, uncontrolled aerodrome under the ownership of J.D. Irving Ltd. following its 2017 purchase, having been preserved from an earlier attempt at closure. It continues to offer its single lit hard-surfaced runway for general aviation traffic in the Saint-Léonard area.
