Porpoise Bay Water Aerodrome
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Sechelt/Porpoise Bay Water Aerodrome was an
aerodrome An aerodrome, airfield, or airstrip is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither, and regardless of whether it is for public or private use. Aerodromes inc ...
located adjacent to
Sechelt Sechelt (, Sechelt language, shíshálh Language: ch'atlich) is a district municipality located on the lower Sunshine Coast (British Columbia), Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. Approximately northwest of Vancouver, it is accessible from ma ...
,
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,
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. The airport was listed as abandoned in the 15 March 2007 Canada Flight Supplement.


Current usage

While the aerodrome has been closed, private airline operators still use the
Sechelt Inlet Sechelt Inlet formerly ''Seechelt Inlet'' is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast. The inlet is significant in that it almost makes an island of what is instead the Sechelt Peninsula, whose isthmus is at the town of Sechelt ...
/Porpoise Bay area daily. Daily scheduled flights by
Harbour Air Harbour Air is a scheduled floatplane service, tour and charter airline based in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. The predominantly seaplane airline specializes in routes between Vancouver, Nanaimo, Victoria, Sechelt, Comox, Whistler and ...
leave from the
Lighthouse Pub The Lighthouse Pub is a Transportation Corridor / Restaurant and Pub at the southern tip of Sechelt Inlet. The building was originally a restaurant from Expo 86 and has since been slowly transformed into an air and sea gatewayLighthouse Pub The Lighthouse Pub is a Transportation Corridor / Restaurant and Pub at the southern tip of Sechelt Inlet. The building was originally a restaurant from Expo 86 and has since been slowly transformed into an air and sea gatewaySechelt Aerodrome Sechelt Aerodrome is located south southeast of the centre of Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlanti ...


References

Defunct seaplane bases in British Columbia Sechelt {{BritishColumbia-airport-stub