Peace River Airport, (IATA: YPE, ICAO: CYPE), is a municipally owned airport located 5 NM (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) west of the Town of Peace River, Alberta, Canada. The airport has two operating runways, the longest being 5,000 ft (1,500 m) long and the terminal building, 21,000 square feet (2,000 m2) in size.
Northern Air is based at the airport and provides scheduled service to Edmonton, in addition to charters and air ambulance. The airport was the hub of Peace Air until the airline ceased operations in May 2007.
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“This spirit it was which so early carried the French to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi on the north, and the Spaniard to the same river on the south. It was long before our frontiers reached their settlements in the West, and a voyageur or coureur de bois is still our conductor there.”
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