du Rocher-Percé Airport, , is located 4 NM in Grande-Rivière

Grande-Rivière

Grande-Rivière may refer to:*Grande-Rivière, Quebec, a city in the province of Quebec, Canada**Grande-Rivière railway station*Grande-Rivière, Jura, a commune in the region of Franche-Comté, FranceSimilar names:...

, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada

Canada

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. The airport formerly had scheduled air service from the commuter airline

Regional airline

Regional airlines are airlines that operate regional aircraft to provide passenger air service to communities without sufficient demand to attract mainline service...

 Quebecair Express

Quebecair Express

Quebecair Express was an airline based in L'Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec, Canada. It was established in 2003 and operated scheduled services . It was grounded at the end of January 2005, and is in negotiations to avert bankruptcy . Declared bankruptcy in January 2005...

, before that airline's bankruptcy in 2005.

In 2000, the Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

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 federal government proposed expanding the airport's runway for use by charter tour jets, since it is the closest airport to the popular tourist spot Percé

Percé, Quebec

Percé is a small village near the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula in Québec. As a municipality, it is 432.39 square km in area. It has a long history of being an important seasonal fishing centre under the French...

, as part of a federal development package for the Gaspé

Gaspé Peninsula

The Gaspésie , or Gaspé Peninsula or the Gaspé, is a peninsula along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, extending into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence...

 region, but the plan was not carried out. Currently, neither Pabok nor nearby Gaspé Airport

Gaspé Airport

Gaspé Airport, or Michel Pouliot Gaspé Airport , is located west of Gaspé, Quebec, Canada. The airport is non-towered, but has a mandatory frequency linked remotely the flight service station located in Mont-Joli...

 has a long enough runway for most jets, though the Gaspé airport has better instrument approach

Instrument approach

For aircraft operating under instrument flight rules , an instrument approach or instrument approach procedure is a series of predetermined maneuvers for the orderly transfer of an aircraft under instrument flight conditions from the beginning of the initial approach to a landing, or to a point...

es.

External links

• Page about this airport on COPA's
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