Lethbridge Airport

The Lethbridge Airport is really located outside of the limit of the City of Lethbridge. The farmstead it is located upon is within the County of Lethbridge despite it being near to the City. The airport is sometimes mentioned to as the Lethbridge County Airport as a consequence. The government of the Airport are a quodlibet between the City of Lethbridge and the County of Lethbridge, as its benefit and duty look to traverse backward and away between the two political bodies which regulate those area.

The Lethbridge Airport has an interesting past, but the best of it is yet to be written. It has long been a spot of a letdown to the local people in the deficiency of service and transit option available there. There have been brief period in the local past when it looked the Lethbridge airport was on an upswing and that it would go more of an economic part for the part, but necessarily thing look to gaffe backward into quiet torpor away there. Most peoples who traveling by breath however look to like to thrust to Calgary or to Great Falls due to the restricted option and high price that the Lethbridge airport is reputed for.

When founded, the Lethbridge airport was known as Kenyon Field, this aerodrome began rider service in October 1938, but did not formally opened until June 1939.

From 1939 until 1948, Lethbridge operated as Western Canada's primary hose part. That entirely is pretty amazing when you stare at how desolate the field is presently. At the begin of World War II, Kenyon Field transformed into a preparation installation under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). The breath firehouse was operated & administered by the Royal Canadian Air Force and was named RCAF Station Lethbridge. In July 1940, the Lethbridge aerodrome hosted the No. 5 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS). Flight Instruction was supplied by the member of the local flying nine. Becausethe airport frequently experienced (and however does) significant amount of high airstream, the flying academy yet relocated to less windy burg of High River, Alberta, in June 1941.

Late in the twelvemonth 1941, the No. 8 Bombing and Gunnery School, which was besides a BCATP preparation installation, opened its door at the breath firehouse. Large amount of farmstead was necessitated for the gunnery and bombing pattern, around 100 foursquare mile (260 km2) of farmstead was rented from the Aboriginals of the Blood Indian Reserve which is located nearby to the West of the Lethbridge Airport. Aircraft which were used by this formation academy included; Fairey Battles, Ansons, Lysanders, and Bolingbrokes.

The RCAF leaved the Lethbridge Airport in 1944.

In 1947, the edifice which was the RCAF's messiness hallway was renovated by the Department of Transportation (nowadays known as Transport Canada) into a functional Air Terminal Building. This edifice was replaced by the current Air Terminal edifice in 1979.

The County of Lethbridge took over community and activity of the Lethbridge airport in January 1997. At this clip it was renamed the Lethbridge County Airport. An agnomen which it however formally has, despite not many peoples using it.