Drag racing will return to the Grand Forks airport this fall.
City council was originally undecided after hearing that last year’s event prevented four medevac flights from using the airport.
However, BC Emergency Health Services has since clarified that only one flight was affected, forcing a patient from Boundary Hospital to be transferred to the Penticton airport. An email from the agency to the city said helicopters based in Kamloops are also used when available and appropriate, but they don’t need access to the airport in Grand Forks.
Fifteen medevac flights used the Grand Forks airport in all of 2025, more than half of them in the second quarter.
The drag races are organized by the people behind the BC DragiT Challenge. They initially proposed to expand the races to two days this year, but have since decided to keep the event to a single day.
