Airport guide
Midland/Huronia Airport (CYEE): Midland's own airfield, at its true strength
A registered, public airport with a 3,996-foot runway serves Midland from just across the line in Tiny Township -- owned by Midland, Penetanguishene and Tiny together. Its work is business, recreational, medivac, charter and training flying. There are no scheduled flights, and this page sells none.
Midland's airport, seated in Tiny: the settlement, with its evidence
Start with the seat, because the name invites the error: Midland/Huronia Airport (CYEE / YEE), 20 Ed Connelly Drive, Perkinsfield, Ontario L0L 2J0, stands in the Township of Tiny, south-west of Midland -- the airport's own development pages say so in plain words, describing a field located in Tiny serving Midland, Penetanguishene, Tiny and Tay. It is Midland's airport by every tie except the boundary: it carries the town's name, the Town of Midland is a one-third owner of it, and its catchment is the Huronia shore. The owner is the Huronia Airport Commission (705-526-8086), the joint commission of Midland, Penetanguishene and Tiny Township -- the Town of Midland's own 2026 budget letter for the airport shows Midland carrying 50 per cent of the municipal funding, Penetanguishene 28 and Tiny 22. From the municipal office it is 7.9 km straight-line (computed), about 11 km by road and 10 minutes' estimated driving. How the distances on this page are made: the origin is the settled municipal-office point, 575 Dominion Avenue (44.749338, -79.889292, the town's settled identity record), and each airport is taken at its own published coordinates. The straight-line figure is the great-circle (haversine) distance, computed in this guide's generator; the road estimate multiplies it by 1.35 and the driving time divides by a 62 km/h average, rounded to five minutes. These are planning orders of magnitude -- the day's route is read on the road, on Highway 400 and on Ontario 511.
What kind of airport is it? A registered, public, working aerodrome at a full GA airfield's strength, serving a town of 17,817 (Statistics Canada, 2021 Census, the town's settled identity record). The commission's own materials describe its roles in a list this page does not improve on: facilities for business aircraft, recreational pilots and aircraft maintenance, emergency medivac flights, support for search-and-rescue aircraft -- particularly for Georgian Bay -- and firefighting training. It is also a Canada Border Services Airport of Entry / CANPASS field (AOE/CAN in the Flight Supplement), which is what makes cross-border GA arrivals by arrangement a real function here, not a brochure line.
The airfield in numbers
Runway 16/34
The commission's five-year plan compares the runway to Buttonville's and Toronto Island's and credits it with most multi-engine turboprops and many small-to-medium executive jets. Lighting is pilot-activated: ARCAL on 122.85, type J, with abbreviated PAPI (APAPI) on both ends. Elevation 773 ft. The Supplement's caution is printed here because pilots actually need it: the runway slopes (the first 998 ft of runway 34 rises at 1.14 per cent), aircraft at opposite ends may not see each other, and wildlife and trees figure on the approaches.
Radio, navigation and hours
GPS/LPV approaches serve both runways on the operator's pilot information. Traffic outside UNICOM hours uses the same frequency (ATF, 5 NM, to 3,800 ft ASL). The Midland DME (YEE, 112.8) sits some 8.5 NM away on the Supplement's record. The commission's published office pattern is weekday daytime; the aerodrome itself is read in the current Supplement and NOTAMs, never from a guide.
Terminal, ramp and parking
The plan's inventory gives the modern terminal building, the large asphalt ramp and 35 tie-downs, with hangar lots and an on-field aerospace community around them. The Supplement's facilities line adds the ground truth for arrivals: food, taxi, medical aid, accommodation and car rental within 5 NM -- arranged in the towns, not airside.
Who runs it, and how to reach it
The operator's own contact block: Huronia Airport Commission, 20 Ed Connelly Drive, 705-526-8086, manager@huroniaairport.com, at huroniaairport.com. Landing, parking and fuel terms are quoted by the commission -- its own posture is contact-for-pricing, and this page prints no fee it has not published.
What flies here: business, recreational, maintenance, medivac -- and a flight school
The field's work divides the way the commission divides it. Business and recreational flying is the daily traffic of a cottage-country airport an hour's flight from the GTA: owners, visitors and charters using the runway the plan describes. Medivac and search-and-rescue support is the public-service core -- the field exists in the region's emergency geography, minutes from Georgian Bay General Hospital in Midland and from the bay its SAR role names. Maintenance and manufacturing are unusually deep for a field this size, on the airport's own development pages: an established aerospace community including Zenair kit aircraft, Aircraft Floats Manufacturing, Custom Flight Limited and Huronia Aircraft Maintenance, with avionics depth from the Midland Instruments family beside it.
Flight training is a headline function, and it has a name: XStream Sport Aviation teaches at Huronia (and at Edenvale) on its own pages -- ultralight and advanced-ultralight training on Evektor SportStar Max, Tecnam Bravo and Bushcat aircraft, with discovery flights for the curious, one-on-one instruction year-round, seven days a week, weather permitting, and a certified Rotax repair centre in one of the field's main hangars on the aviation press's account. The school publishes its own fixed-price training facets; programmes, aircraft availability and prices are read with the school at learntoflycanada.com, never frozen here. Anyone comparing schools should also read the commission's page -- training tenants at a small field change, and the airport confirms who is current.
Services on the field
The Supplement and the commission publish a working GA service list: fuels 100LL and Jet A-1, oils (20W50, 15W50 on the Supplement), storage, minor and major repairs, extended parking, tie-downs and plug-ins, with servicing codes 1-6 on the record reached via SkyVector's CYEE record. There is no airline terminal operation, no scheduled handling and no rental-car desk on the field -- the Supplement places car rental, taxis and accommodation within 5 NM, in Midland and Penetanguishene, which is exactly how ground transport works at an airfield of this size. On prices, the commission's posture governs: no fuel price, landing fee or tie-down rate is printed here, because the operator publishes none on the surfaces reached. A third-party directory's fuel figure is a snapshot of unknown age, and this guide does not launder snapshots into facts.
The honest limit: there are no scheduled flights
Read this section before planning anything around this airport: no airline sells a scheduled seat to or from CYEE, and none is published on any primary surface this guide could reach. There is no route map, no check-in deadline and no layover product here -- a layover needs a scheduled network to connect through, and CYEE has none. If you need a scheduled flight, the airport is Toronto Pearson (YYZ): from the municipal office it is 121.0 km straight-line (computed), about 163 km by road and 160 minutes' estimated driving by this page's computed method -- in practice the Highway 12 / Highway 93 run to Highway 400 south, the region's ordinary airport drive. Toronto Billy Bishop (YTZ), the downtown island airport, is the second scheduled option at 130.8 km straight-line (computed), about 177 km by road and 170 minutes' estimated driving. The nearer large field, Lake Simcoe Regional Airport (YLS) in Oro-Medonte (39.5 km straight-line (computed), about 53 km by road and 50 minutes' estimated driving), is a charter and business-aviation airport: no scheduled service is asserted for it here either.
And the layover truth, printed so nobody wastes a day: Midland is a destination you add before or after a Toronto flight -- a night on the bay, a Butter Tart Festival Saturday, a cruise out of the Town Dock -- not a place to spend a six-hour Pearson layover. The return drive alone eats the connection. Fly in, drive up, stay the night: that is the honest shape of a Midland trip that starts at Pearson.
Getting between the airport, the town and Pearson
CYEE to Midland and Penetanguishene: by car or taxi
The field sits south-west of Midland off the Highway 12 corridor: the municipal office is 7.9 km straight-line (computed), about 11 km by road and 10 minutes' estimated driving (computed), and Penetanguishene is a similar short run north-west. There is no shuttle and no transit route to the aerodrome on any surface reached -- arrange the car or the taxi before you land, through the commission or the towns' taxi operators. No fare is printed: no operator publishes a fare table for the airport run, so the price is confirmed when the car is booked.
Midland to Toronto Pearson: the drive
The drive is the region's default: south on Highway 400 to the airport strip. Computed from the municipal office, Pearson is 121.0 km straight-line (computed), about 163 km by road and 160 minutes' estimated driving. Read the day's Highway 400 conditions on Ontario 511; a Friday-afternoon or storm-day run is a different animal from a Tuesday morning, and any honest guide says so.
Midland to Pearson without a car: bus chain, or a booked sedan
Simcoe County LINX inter-community buses list Midland among their destinations, linking North Simcoe with Barrie and Orillia; the Barrie-to-Pearson onward leg (GO and airport-bus connections) is read with its operators for the day -- no through fare is published on a surface reached, so none is printed. For a door-to-door car, one airport-limousine operator publishes a Midland-to-Pearson sedan base rate of $200 (1-4 passengers, before HST, fuel surcharge and gratuity, on its own page): airportluxurylimousine.com -- a real published price, at one operator's grade, confirmed at booking like every private rate.
Sleeping near the field: Midland first, Penetanguishene second
The field's bed is Midland itself: the town's hotels and inns cluster along the King Street / Highway 12 corridor and the waterfront, a short drive from Ed Connelly Drive, and Penetanguishene adds its own rooms up the bay. No airport hotel exists at CYEE and none is dressed up here: crews and charter parties sleep in the towns, which is also where the food is. Rooms are booked with the hotels; a fly-in weekend in Butter Tart Festival week or high summer books out early, on the town's own accounts of its June crowds.
Practical notes for anyone actually using this airfield. Pilots: the Canada Flight Supplement entry for CYEE and the day's NOTAMs govern -- UNICOM hours are limited, the lighting is pilot-activated on the same frequency, the runway's slope can hide an aircraft at the far end, and customs arrivals are AOE/CANPASS by arrangement with CBSA. Visitors: this is a working aerodrome with an active COPA chapter, fly-ins and a flight school -- arrive as a user, a student or a guest of one, arrange your ground transport before you land, and expect a competent small airfield with an outsized maintenance community, which is exactly what the Huronia shore needs it to be.
Common questions
Is there really an airport for Midland?
Yes. Midland/Huronia Airport (CYEE / YEE), 20 Ed Connelly Drive, is a registered, public aerodrome owned through the Huronia Airport Commission by Midland, Penetanguishene and Tiny Township. Its seat is in Tiny Township, south-west of town -- printed plainly on this page -- and its name, ownership and catchment are Midland's.
Can I book a flight to Midland?
No scheduled flight exists to book. No airline publishes scheduled service to CYEE; the airport's work is business, recreational, maintenance, medivac, search-and-rescue and charter flying, plus flight training. For a scheduled seat, use Toronto Pearson (YYZ) and cover the last leg by road, by the LINX-and-onward bus chain, or by a charter you arrange with an operator.
What is the runway like, and can a small jet use it?
Runway 16/34 is 3,996 by 75 feet of asphalt, with pilot-activated lighting and APAPI on both ends. The commission's own plan credits it with most multi-engine turboprops and many small-to-medium executive jets. Specific aircraft acceptance is confirmed with the commission (705-526-8086) -- a guide prints the field, the operator clears the flight.
Can I learn to fly at CYEE?
Yes: XStream Sport Aviation teaches at Huronia on its own pages -- ultralight and advanced-ultralight training and discovery flights on Evektor SportStar Max, Tecnam Bravo and Bushcat aircraft, one-on-one, year-round and weather permitting. The school publishes its own fixed-price facets; read programmes and prices with the school, and confirm the current training tenant with the airport.
How do I get from Pearson to Midland?
By road up Highway 400 and Highway 12 (about two hours in ordinary conditions, read on Ontario 511 for the day); by Simcoe County LINX buses via Barrie with onward connections read with their operators; or by a booked private car -- one operator publishes a $200 sedan base rate from Midland to Pearson, before HST, fuel surcharge and gratuity, on its own page.
Is there a layover guide for CYEE?
No, honestly: a layover needs scheduled connections, and CYEE has no scheduled service. Midland belongs before or after a Toronto flight, as a stay -- not inside a Pearson layover, which the two-hour-each-way drive would consume entirely.
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