Greenbank Airport | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Operator | Greenbank Airways Limited | ||||||||||||||
Location | Greenbank, Ontario | ||||||||||||||
Time zone | EST ( UTC−05:00) | ||||||||||||||
• Summer ( DST) | EDT ( UTC−04:00) | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 975 ft / 297 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 44°08′03″N 079°00′45″W / 44.13417°N 79.01250°W | ||||||||||||||
Website | Official Website | ||||||||||||||
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Greenbank Airport ( TC LID: CNP8) is located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) south of Greenbank in Scugog, Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada.
Planes land on turf in summer and on ice and snow in winter.
Two small hangars (providing limited storage at the airfield), airport office (converted farm house) and refuelling tanks are the few structures at the airport. The airport offers either Avgas or Mogas.
The Township of Scugog filed claims of illegal dumping by GFL Environmental has resulted in nearby soil contamination from 2012 to 2015. [3] The claim believes the numbered Ontario company is owned by GFL and using it to transport soil from their Pickering site.
On August 1, 2008 at around 9:45am a small plane crashed near the airport. [4] Both people in the plane died. One was the airport owner and manager and the other is unknown. [5] Emergency services attended the scene and left by 11am. The crash scene was near the intersection of Durham Regional Road 47 and Highway 12. [5]