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Places to fly from Rockcliffe > Airports classified by time to get there

Here is a compendium of places to go from Rockcliffe organized by how long it would take to get there in a 172. Keep in mind that winds can add or substract 1/2 hour or more. Thanks a whole lot to Alison Hobbs for compiling this information.

* indicates food served at the airport, though of course the quality varies!
# indicates meals available a short walk away. Otherwise you'll have to take a taxi to the nearby town.)

Airports 45 minutes or closer in a C-172 are:

Cornwall*
Arnprior Smiths Falls* (is the on-site restaurant is not always open)
Morrisburg #
Pendleton (for the gliding)
Alexandria (turf runway, music festival on Sundays in summer)
Maniwaki #
Lachute*
Massena (U.S. customs clearance)
Westport # N.B. turf runway, high trees around)

Airports approximately 1 hour away:

La Macaza
Les Cèdres (Cedars) * (that's the airport where we hear people talking on the same frequency as us)
Kingston #
Pembroke
Mt. Laurier *
Tomvale (Land o' Lakes) -- (NOTE: PNR $10 landing fee if you call ahead, $50 landing fee if you don't) find it under Plevna in the CFS - no services
Alexandria Bay (U.S. customs clearance)

Airports less than 90 minutes away:

St Hubert * (park here for a visit to Montreal)
Bromont *
St. Jean-sur-Richelieu #
Deep River (watch out for high trees)
Burlington* # (A good place for U.S. customs clearance)
Saranac Lake* (U.S.A. Add time for customs clearance at Massena)

Approx. an hour-and-a-half away:

Belleville
Watertown (U.S. customs)
Peterborough *
Stanhope (Haliburton Highlands)
Picton #
Trois-Rivières * (slightly more than 90 mins distant)

Approx. two hours away:

Orillia
Syracuse (U.S. customs)
North Bay *
Lindsay *
Muskoka #
Barrie (2 different airports)
Sherbrooke *
Rutland State (U.S.A. Allow time for customs clearance at Massena)
Oshawa

Just over 2 hours away:

Toronto City* # (landing fee)
Québec City*

Approx two-and-a-half hours away:

Georgian Bay #
Kitchener *
Hamilton * (Visit the War Planes Museum on the field)
St. Catherine's
Beauce
Stratford

Approx 3 hours flying time away (you might want to break the journey half way):

Ithaca (U.S.A. Allow time for customs clearance en route. Hotel shuttle will pick you up at the airport)
Goderich * # (the restaurant at the eastern end of the runway is particularly recommended but the one across the apron is also good. There's an excellent museum at this airport that used to be a Royal Air Force flight-training camp.)
Portland # (U.S.A. Allow for a stop at Burlington for customs clearance.)

Just over 3 hours flying time away (rest stop en route recommended):

Airports on the periphery of Boston, Mass. (Allow time for en route customs clearance.)
Île aux Coudres (N.B. gravel runway. Hotel shuttle will pick you up)
Rivière-du-Loup