# Edmonton City Centre Airport

Edmonton, Canada · other · tier: draft · Retrofit Atlas record `n-4e1a1d8a5f` · release 2026-10-22

Canonical: https://retrofitatlas.org/other/canada/edmonton-edmonton-city-centre-airport/  
JSON: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/n-4e1a1d8a5f.json · Provenance: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/n-4e1a1d8a5f.provenance.json · API: https://retrofitatlas.org/api/v1/sites/n-4e1a1d8a5f

## Facts

| Field | Value | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Status | under construction | none |
| Strategy | redevelop | none |
| New use | housing | none |

## Quoted support

- **site_acres**: “encompassed approximately 58 ha (144 acres) of land” — extraction-deep:nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b

## Background (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened)

Edmonton City Centre Airport (ECCA), (IATA: YXD, ICAO: CYXD) was an airport within the city of Edmonton, in the Canadian province of Alberta.
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 58 ha (144 acres) 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.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton_City_Centre_Airport

## Sources

- Edmonton City Centre Airport — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton_City_Centre_Airport

## Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Edmonton City Centre Airport, Edmonton, Canada." Record n-4e1a1d8a5f, release 2026-10-22, tier draft. https://retrofitatlas.org/other/canada/edmonton-edmonton-city-centre-airport/ (accessed 2026-10-22).

```bibtex
@misc{retrofitatlas_edmontonedmontoncitycentreairport,
  title = {Edmonton City Centre Airport, Edmonton, Canada},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/other/canada/edmonton-edmonton-city-centre-airport/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record n-4e1a1d8a5f, release 2026-10-22, tier: draft. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-22}
}
```

Licence: research use only; terms undecided with the authors (https://retrofitatlas.org/licence/). Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0. Tiers: curated = from the authors' public map, not reviewed by them; draft = imported or model-extracted, unreviewed.