Puntzi Mountain Airport

Puntzi Mountain Airport, (ICAO: CYPU), is located 17 nautical miles (31 km; 20 mi) west of Puntzi Mountain, British Columbia, Canada.

Puntzi Mountain Airport
IATA: none ICAO: CYPU
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Provincial Airtanker Centre
Location	Puntzi Mountain, British Columbia
Time zone	PST (UTC−08:00)
• Summer (DST)	PDT (UTC−07:00)
Elevation AMSL	2,985 ft / 910 m
Coordinates	52°06′46″N 124°08′41″W
Map
CYPU Location in British Columbia
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 05/23 6,012 1,832 Asphalt
Source: Canada Flight Supplement[1]

History

The airport was established in 1951 to provide access to a base of the Pine Tree Line, part of the DEW system. It was the second-longest airstrip in British Columbia at the time and thirteen D8 bulldozers were on-site to keep the runway graded and, in winter, cleared of snow. One hundred American servicemen and a few Canadian servicemen, some with families, staffed the base at Puntzi, which also hired local Tsilhqot'in people.[2]

References

1. Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 16 July 2020 to 0901Z 10 September 2020.
2. Makuk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations, John Sutton Lutz, UBC Press, 2008, pp. 153-154