Fredericton International Airport (IATA: YFC, ICAO: CYFC) is an airport in Lincoln, New Brunswick, Canada, 7 NM (13 km; 8.1 mi) southeast of Fredericton.
The airport is classified as an airport of entry by NAV CANADA and is staffed by the Canada Border Services Agency. CBSA officers at this airport currently can handle aircraft with no more than 55 passengers or 140 if offloaded in stages.
Part of the National Airports System, the airport is owned by Transport Canada and operated by the Greater Fredericton Airport Authority.
The airport has two runways, one of which is the longest in the Province. Fredericton Airport is the second busiest airport in New Brunswick in terms of passenger levels, after the Greater Moncton International Airport. In 2007 the airport handled 267,511 passengers and in 2008 the airport went from 34,078 aircraft movements to 73,330, an increase of 115%, prompting NAV CANADA to provide a control tower in 2009/2010. In 2009 the airport saw the number of movements rise by 44.8% to 106,178 making it the 19th busiest in Canada and the only one in the top twenty without air traffic control during the year.
Fredericton was designated an international airport in 2007 by Transport Canada.
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