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Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport, or Moncton/Greater Moncton International Airport is located in the city of Dieppe 4NM east northeast of downtown Moncton, New Brunswick, CanadaThe GMIA handled 677,159 passengers in 2014.The airport is classified as an airport of entry by Nav Canada and is staffed by the Canada Border Services Agency . CBSA officers at this airport currently can handle aircraft with up to 225 passengers. Nevertheless, planes as large as the 580 passenger Boeing 747 have been handled.GMIA is home to the Moncton Flight College, the largest flight college in Canada.HistoryOn January 11, 1928, the first scheduled air flight out of the Greater Moncton area took place. This flight was carrying mail and passengers to the Magdalen Islands. Two sites were considered for the first air strip. Leger's Corner was chosen however because of more favourable landing conditions. Part of this land was donated to the city of Moncton by Simon B. LeBlanc of Leger's Corner, a developer, land owner and owner of the LeBlanc general store and post office located on the south corner of the now named streets of Acadie Ave and Champlain St.In 1929, a local private company bought the land at Léger's Corner airstrip and through the years two runways were constructed as well as structures for aircraft maintenance. It was also in 1929 that the Moncton Aero Club was founded, as was the International Airways Flying School. These later became the Moncton Flight College, one of the pre-eminent flight schools in Canada. Also in the same year, the airport expanded its air mail service to include Prince Edward Island and Montreal.