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Charles Kirkconnell International Airport

Airport

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ3275688 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sir Captain Charles Kirkconnell International Airport (IATA: CYB, ICAO: MWCB) is an airport serving 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 runway is on the southwestern end of Cayman Brac, and parallels the south shoreline. Approaches and departures are over the water. The Cayman Brac non-directional beacon (Ident: CBC) is located 1.0 nautical mile (1.9 km) off the approach threshold of Runway 27.

In 2012, 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.

Airlines and destinations

Cayman Airways currently operates Boeing 737 MAX 8 jetliner service into the airport with limited flights operated on a less than daily basis nonstop to Grand Cayman as well as a weekly 737-8 nonstop southbound from 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 addition, according to the Cayman Airways flight schedule the airline is currently operating direct no change of plane 737-8 jet service every Saturday from Cayman Brac to Denver via a stop in Grand Cayman.

Editorial summary

“Charles Kirkconnell International Airport” enters the record as airport. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Charles, Kirkconnell and International can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Charles, Kirkconnell and International.
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Why this record matters

“Charles Kirkconnell International Airport” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Charles, Kirkconnell and International provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3275688. Authority coordinates are 19.687, -79.883. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Charles Kirkconnell International Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.