Edmonton City Centre Airport

Edmonton City Centre Airport Blatchford Field
City Centre Airport control tower in 2010
IATA: YXD ICAO: CYXD
Summary
Airport type	Defunct
Owner	City of Edmonton
Operator	Edmonton Airports
Serves	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Location	Blatchford, Edmonton
Opened	1927 (1927)
Closed	November 30, 2013 (2013-11-30)
Time zone	MST (UTC−07:00)
• Summer (DST)	MDT (UTC−06:00)
Elevation AMSL	2,202 ft / 671 m
Coordinates	53°34′19″N 113°31′10″W / 53.57194°N 113.51944°W / 53.57194; -113.51944
Map
YXD Location within Edmonton
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 12/30 5,870 1,789 Asphalt 16/34 5,700 1,737 Asphalt
Statistics (2012)
Aircraft Movements 55,863
Sources: Canada Flight Supplement[1] Edmonton Airports[2] Movements from Statistics Canada[3]

Edmonton City Centre Airport (ECCA), (IATA: YXD, ICAO: CYXD) also called Blatchford Field as well as Edmonton Municipal Airport, was an airport within the city of Edmonton, in Alberta, Canada.

It was bordered by Yellowhead Trail to the north, Kingsway to the south, 121 Street to the west, and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) and Jefferson armouries to the east. It encompassed approximately 144 acres (58 ha) of land just north of the city centre of Edmonton.

The airport was originally called Blatchford Field, named for former mayor Kenneth Alexander Blatchford. His son, Howard ("Cowboy") Blatchford, became a noted fighter pilot in World War II. It later was known as the Edmonton Municipal Airport, then as Edmonton Industrial Airport,^[4] and then Edmonton City Centre Airport (ECCA), finally ending as Blatchford Field at Edmonton City Centre Airport. Over the years, the three letter code "YXD" continued to be used for the airport by all of the airlines serving the airfield.

The airport was closed in November 2013, and as of 2018^[update], the land is being redeveloped by the City of Edmonton as a planned community called Blatchford.