Fox Harbour Airport Explained

Fox Harbour Airport
Tc:CFH4
Type:Private
Operator:Fox Harbour Development
Location:Fox Harbour, Nova Scotia
Timezone:AST
Summer:ADT
Elevation-F:62
Coordinates:45.87°N -63.4611°W
Pushpin Map:Canada Nova Scotia
Pushpin Label:CFH4
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Nova Scotia
R1-Number:15/33
R1-Length-F:4,885
R1-Surface:Asphalt
Footnotes:Source: Canada Flight Supplement

Fox Harbour Airport is a privately owned airport located 1.5NM north of Fox Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada on the shore of Northumberland Strait.

It was built as part of the Fox Harb'r Resort, owned by Ron Joyce. After completion of the airport, the nearby Tatamagouche Airport, located adjacent to one of the Tim Hortons children's camps and also owned by Ron Joyce, was closed.

A crash on November 11, 2007 at the airport destroyed a Bombardier Global 5000 private jet and seriously injured five people including the airport's owner Ron Joyce. An investigation by the Canadian Transportation Safety Board in 2009 blamed a landing approach system that was unsuitable for high-performance jets, a road at the end of the runway that was a significant hazard and "seat of the pants" landing procedures at the airport.[1] [2]

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/sequence-of-failures-blamed-for-plane-crash/article1204605/ Peter Cheney, "Sequence of failures' blamed for plane crash", Globe and Mail Nov. 11 2009
  2. http://www.bst-tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/aviation/2007/a07a0134/a07a0134.asp TSB Report