Regional benefit	Did you know: (1) The Elliot Lake Airport serves the entire region from Thessalon to Espanola but Elliot Lake incurs all the cost of operation without subsidy.
Operation	(1) The airport is staffed 363 days a year. The only two days it is unmanned is Dec25 and Jan 01, but if plowing is needed, it is done. Pilots are able to activate and change the intensity of the airfield lighting by clicking their microphone on our frequency. This allows any aircraft to use our airport at night without us being there. A voice activated recorder and voice clock records aircraft arrivals and departures during unstaffed times. (2) The airport is transformed into a drag race for most of 4 days a year in July. During this time the airport cannot accept any airplanes or   helicopters.
Weather	Did you know: (1) The Elliot Lake Airport has been reporting weather since 1976 (2) Large bodies of water significantly influences weather. (ie Great Lakes)      The surrounding weather stations of Gore Bay, Sault Ste Marie and Wawa, by being positioned on the shore of the Great Lakes, can be affected by a micro climate of their own. The Elliot Lake Airport reports weather that is inland and north of Lake Huron and 600 feet higher in elevation. (3) This data is being used by climatologists, forecasters, pilots, and the weather channel. This data is also used for insurance claims where weather is involved, for statistical data, and projects where changes in weather have an influence on the other data. (4) The airport reports: cloud data (types/heights/opacity/amounts/and sums), precipitation (type/amount/duration of each/water equivalents/and snow on ground), visibility and obstructions to vision, temperature (dry/dewpoint/max,min temperatures daily, monthly/and relative humidity), wind (direction/speed/and character). pressure (station/mean sea level/altimeter/and tendency), The readings are taken a minimum of hourly and as changes happen above and below specified criteria. This is transmitted to Environment Canada and then around the world. In 2005 we transmitted 4200 weather observations. We also have wind, rain, and barometric graphs that record 24 hours a day. All paper daily reports, monthly climate summary reports, and graphs are on site.
Aircraft Movements	Did you know: (1) Of all fixed wing aircraft, smaller than a DC3, registered in Canada, 24.7% (1/4) are based within 300nm, and 78% of those are Parry Sound and south. (2) An "aircraft movement" is a takeoff or landing and a "flight" is 2 movements. (3) In 2005, the airport reported 5563 aircraft movements, which is greater than any year since 1990. (4) Statistically, (a) 35.23% were COMMERCIAL flights other than courier and medical flights. (b) 23.6% are PRIVATE LOCAL flights where the aircraft departed and returned using Elliot Lake without landing elsewhere. (c) 15.68% were COURIER flights. Bank transactions of one day, are flown to Toronto that night, processed the following business day, and returned the next morning. Also blood work travels on this same flight to labs in Southern Ontario. (d) 12.34% are PRIVATE ITINERANT flights that departed to, or came from, another airport. (e) 7.39% are GOVERNMENT flights. (MNR,OPP,MOH,CG,TC,HYDRO) (f) 5.76% are MEDIVAC flights where a patient was moved to or from this airport. (160 patients in 2005). In 2002 Air Bravo Corp began service in Elliot Lake as a medivac/charter service. They have 2 aircraft at our airport and 3 in Thunder Bay. It should be of comfort that if the need arises, local aircraft can be dispatched very quickly.
Fuel Sales	Did you know: (a) In 2005 the airport sold 296,000 litres of fuel. That is a significant increase from past years, and most significant is the increase of Jet fuel sales. This increase was made possible only because Esso leant us a fuel truck capable of single point high pressure fueling. (b) Elliot Lake has purchased a new high pressure fuel pump in 2005.
Jobs	Did you know: (a) The airport employs 2.5 full time positions with usually only one person on per shift. (b) The Dynamex Courier employs 3 full time drivers. (c) Air Bravo employs 20 positions, consisting of paramedics, pilots, Aircraft Maintenance Engineers, administration, and support staff.
Miners	Did you know: Although the mines in Elliot Lake have closed, there are miners who work out of town on a 5 weeks in/2 weeks out rotation. The Red Lake miners are being flown in and out of Elliot Lake with a Dash8 on Tuesdays and Wednesdays every second week.
Heliport	Did you know that - with the closure of the hospital helipad, the Ambulance helicopter uses the airport. This benefits the airport with added fuel sales as it is no longer an extra trip to refuel.
Medivacs	Did you know: (a) the airport had 160 medivac flights in 2005. (b) most medivac flights are done with fixed wing twin engine aircraft. Helicopters are not best suited for long distances as they are not fast and their range between fuellings are more limited. (c) although most patients are transfers for specialized help, some are birth problems, infants, transplants, accident or burn victims, or for other life threatening reasons. (d) with the medivac operation, specialized care in Southern Ontario is about an hour flight time away. Air Bravo Corp. is one of several air carriers who criss-cross the province daily moving patients for specialized treatments. (e) patients as far away as Espanola and Thessalon are flown from Elliot Lake
Hope Air	Did you know: - Hope Air is a network of pilots who donate their aircraft and time to provide medical flights for persons meeting a specified criteria. - Hope Air flights provides such flights to Elliot Lake.
Medical Specialists	Did you know: - the airport is being used weekly by Dr Fenton (specialist from Toronto) and occasionally by Dr. Jeffery (replacement anaesthesiologist from Manitoulin).
Tourism	Did you know: (a) The Elliot Lake Airport is situated near the intersection of Wiarton to Wawa, and Sudbury to the Sault. These are two important intersections. (b) A runway is basically a transportation system where you only need a small road at the beginning and end of your journey. Being flying is much faster than driving, distances are not as critical as with driving. This allows additional clientele for tourism initiatives such as our new championship golf course, cottage lot development, and products offered by other local tourism partners.