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Billy Bishop Toronto City Centre Airport (CYTZ) sits on an island in Lake Ontario just off downtown Toronto, a short-field city airport with scheduled airline service and a control tower. For the visiting VFR or IFR pilot it offers a compact runway layout, an ILS on the main strip, and a genuinely urban approach and departure environment.
Billy Bishop Toronto City Centre Airport, identified as CYTZ, lies on Toronto Island in Lake Ontario, immediately adjacent to downtown Toronto. It is classed as a medium airport with scheduled airline service, sitting at an elevation of 249 feet, and is of particular interest to simulator pilots for its tight city-centre setting, its short main runway equipped with an ILS, and the water crossing typically required on approach or departure.
The airport is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at coordinates 43.6284 N, 79.3962 W, on an island site within Lake Ontario close to the downtown core. No further detail on surrounding controlled airspace, FIR boundaries or neighbouring aerodromes is available from the material to hand.
CYTZ has two physical runways. Runway 08/26 is 4,045 feet long with a hard surface, lit, and served by an ILS. Runway 06/24 is shorter, at 2,546 feet, also hard-surfaced and lit, but without an ILS.
The tower operates on 118.2 MHz, which also serves as the Aerodrome Traffic Frequency (ATF), suggesting this frequency is used both for active tower control and as the calling frequency when the tower is not staffed. Ground movements are handled on 121.7 MHz. Approach and departure traffic works Terminal control on 133.4 MHz for both arrivals and departures. ATIS broadcasts on 133.6 MHz between 1130 and 0400Z, with an AWOS on the same frequency, 133.6 MHz, covering the remaining hours of 0400 to 1130Z. Runway 08/26 is equipped with an ILS for instrument approaches.
CYTZ operates as a medium airport with scheduled airline service to and from downtown Toronto. Facilities noted include avgas availability, customs clearance, and a landing fee applied to arriving aircraft, along with airside charging arrangements. Given its city-centre island location, controlled operations and airline traffic, pilots should expect prior permission or coordination to be required before a visiting flight.
