Given the amount of neighbourhood concern about the renovations underway at the Cortes Island airstrip, Cortes Currents asked Transport Canada:
- Do the owners of private airstrips have a duty to consult with their communities before undertaking extensive expansions?
- What will Transport Canada do when, as appears to be the case on Cortes Island, this does not occur?
Sau Sau Liu, Senior Communications Advisor at Transport Canada, replied,
“All aerodromes on private property are required to meet the Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs), regardless of their registration status. Aerodromes that are building a new runway, or increasing the length of a runway by more than 100m or 10%, are required to consult communities, as per Canadian Aviation Regulations 307and the related Advisory Circular 307.01.”
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