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Thorburn Lake Seaplane Base (CCW5)

Identifier CCW5, as tagged on OpenStreetMap (node/8834010921).

For status, fuel and lights, check the Canada Flight Supplement and NOTAMs. The flying guide links NAV CANADA's products; this page is no substitute for a briefing.

As the map has it

Kind
Water aerodrome — floats, no runway way to measure.
Position
48.26759, -54.15453
Fuel tag
not tagged

Tags show what a mapper last recorded. Most strips here have none. Landed here? You can fix them in five minutes on the open map.

Thorburn Lake Seaplane Base, and the six airports and ferry terminals it has measured drives from. The strip is the mapped point; the roads OSRM drove to are up to 154 m from it.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

Getting to it by road

Router times from 2026-09-06, not checked by a drive.

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Arriving without a car

No airport authority lists ground transport for a strip this size, and within 3 km the open map shows no taxi stand, bus stop or rental desk. The map misses things: Gander's own authority lists a 24-hour taxi rank that the map does not hold. Arrange your ride before you fly in.

OpenStreetMap, queried within 3 km of the mapped point on September 15, 2026. The drives above start at the airports and ferry terminals.

Measured routes that pass it

Nearest strips, as the crow flies

Straight-line distance, not a route. The full matrix is on the flying guide.

Flown, on the record

No pilot has sent a log that touches this strip. A GPS log from the panel or the tablet, both ends within 3 km of a mapped aerodrome, is the proof — how to send it.

Help build this page

  • Tag it. Surface, length, lighting and fuel are OpenStreetMap tags on the runway and the aerodrome; most strips here carry none.
  • Send the log of a leg flown into or out of it, and a photo of the approach or the apron under the licence sentence on the contribute page.
  • Host a community mesh node. An open, volunteer-run radio mesh across the island's strips starts with the first node. It sits beside VHF, the ELT and NAV CANADA's products, never instead of them: the ask.
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