Nonstop flight route between Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Edson, Alberta, Canada:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (YTZ), Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Edson Airport (YET), Edson, Alberta, Canada would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,803 miles (or 2,901 kilometers).

A Great Circle is the shortest distance between 2 points on a sphere. Because most world maps are flat (but the Earth is round), the route of the shortest distance between 2 points on the Earth will often appear curved when viewed on a flat map, especially for long distances. If you were to simply draw a straight line on a flat map and measure a very long distance, it would likely be much further than if you were to lay a string between those two points on a globe. Because of the relatively short distance between Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport and Edson Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (YTZ):

• During World War II, the island airport became a military training base.
• By 1956, takeoffs and landings at the Island reached 130,000 per year, many of them private flights to Muskoka and Haliburton Other flights included a daily return flight to the race track at Fort Erie, Ontario for horsemen and gamblers offered by Central Airways.
• In January 2009, it was announced that the TPA would purchase a second, larger ferry to support Porter's activities.
• The furthest airport from Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (YTZ) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,411 miles (18,364 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• Art Eggleton was elected Toronto mayor and a compromise was reached in 1981, when the City of Toronto agreed to a limited level of commercial STOL passenger service, and the exclusion of jet airplanes.
• In addition to being known as "Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport", another name for YTZ is "Toronto Island Airport".
• The first proposal to build an airport was made in June 1929 by the Toronto Harbour Commission.
• Because of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport's relatively low elevation of 252 feet, planes can take off or land at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
• Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (YTZ) has 3 runways.
• The closest airport to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (YTZ) is Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ), which is located only 12 miles (20 kilometers) WNW of YTZ.
• In 1973, de Havilland Aircraft of Canada, makers of the new DHC-7 STOL plane, proposed a network of STOL airports around Ontario, with the Island Airport as its hub, to the Government of Ontario cabinet ministers and the Government of Canada cabinet ministers.

Facts about Edson Airport (YET):

• The closest airport to Edson Airport (YET) is High Prairie Airport (ZHP), which is located only 13 miles (21 kilometers) S of YET.
• Edson Airport (YET) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Edson Airport (YET) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 10,287 miles (16,555 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.