Sir Charles Kirkconnell International Airport | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Location | Cayman Brac | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 1.3 m / 4 ft | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 19°41′13″N 79°52′58″W / 19.68694°N 79.88278°WCoordinates: 19°41′13″N 79°52′58″W / 19.68694°N 79.88278°W | ||||||||||
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Sources: Cayman Islands AIP
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Sir Captain Charles Kirkconnell International Airport (IATA: CYB, ICAO: MWCB) is an airport located on Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands. It is one of the hubs for Cayman Airways with flights to Owen Roberts International Airport on Grand Cayman, and Edward Bodden Airfield on Little Cayman. It is the only airport on Cayman Brac. The airport was renamed Charles Kirkconnell International Airport, in memory of Captain Charles Leonard Kirkconnell, a prominent local businessman with strong ties to the Sister Islands. Its previous name was Gerrard-Smith International Airport.
Cayman Airways operates Boeing 737-300 jetliner service into the airport with limited flights operated on a less than daily basis nonstop to Grand Cayman, Havana and Miami while Cayman Airways Express flies de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter STOL capable turboprops and Saab 340B regional turboprops to Grand Cayman with Twin Otter service also being operated to the neighboring island of Little Cayman.
In 1965, Cayman Brac Airways (CBA), a subsidiary of LACSA Airlines, was operating twice weekly round trip service flown with a Beech Model 18 twin prop aircraft on a routing of Grand Cayman - Little Cayman (flag stop only) - Cayman Brac - Montego Bay. According to the airline's May 1, 1965 timetable, connecting service to Miami via Grand Cayman was offered by LACSA, an airline based in Costa Rica, while additional CBA connecting service to Miami as well as to New York City was offered by Pan Am via Montego Bay.