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Tillsonburg Municipal Airport (CYTB) serves the town of Tillsonburg in Oxford County, Ontario, roughly 50 kilometres southeast of London. It is owned and operated by the Town of Tillsonburg and offers a mix of hard-surfaced and grass runways suited to general aviation and training flights.
CYTB is the Tillsonburg Municipal Airport, a town-owned general aviation field serving the community of Tillsonburg in Oxford County, Ontario. It sits at an elevation of 879 feet and offers a useful mix of paved and grass runways, making it a practical stop for visiting VFR pilots in the region southeast of London.
The airfield lies near the town of Tillsonburg, which is situated about 50 kilometres southeast of London, Ontario, at the junction of Highway 3 and Highway 19. The town itself sits on Big Otter Creek in Oxford County.
Tillsonburg offers three physical runway pairs. Runway 08/26 is the primary hard-surfaced strip, lit, measuring 5470 feet in the 08 direction and 4482 feet in the 26 direction. Two grass runways complete the field: 02/20, lit, at approximately 2158/2157 feet, and 14/32, lit, at 2090 feet each way. There is no ILS at the field.
The airport is owned and operated by the Town of Tillsonburg, a municipality settled in 1825 by George Tillson and other immigrants from Enfield, Massachusetts, originally known as Dereham Forge before being renamed Tillsonburg in 1836 and incorporated as a town in 1872.
Tillsonburg Municipal Airport continues to be owned and operated by the Town of Tillsonburg as one of its municipal facilities, alongside other town-run amenities such as the local water park.