# Arctic Bay Airport (YAB / CYAB)

**Arctic Bay Airport** (IATA: YAB, ICAO: CYAB) is a small airport in Arctic Bay, Nunavut, Canada. It has one runway, 1,199 m (3,935 ft) long, gravel.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyab

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: YAB / CYAB
- Type: Small airport
- Serves: Arctic Bay, Nunavut, Canada
- Elevation: 22 m / 72 ft
- Coordinates: 73.0061, -85.0462
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,199 m / 3,935 ft
- Time zone: UTC-6/-5 · America/Rankin_Inlet
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Bay_Airport (13 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3912651
- Weather station: CYAB
- Ident: CYAB

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 13/31 | 1,199 m / 3,935 ft | 30 m / 98 ft | Gravel | 128° / 308° | yes |

## Routes

3 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (3)

- [YIO](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyio.md) Pond Inlet Airport · Canada · 235 km / 146 mi · Canadian North
- [YRB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyrb.md) Resolute Bay Airport · Canada · 360 km / 224 mi · Canadian North
- [YFB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyfb.md) Iqaluit Airport · Canada · 1,221 km / 759 mi · Canadian North

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from YAB, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- 5T [Canadian North](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/canadian-north) · 3

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Longest runway | 1,199 m / 3,935 ft | =10,821 of 29,858 | =4,228 in North America | =394 in CA |
| Elevation | 22 m / 72 ft | =38,075 of 43,403 | =17,264 in North America | =1,334 in CA |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =2,583 in North America | =233 in CA |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| MF |  | 122.100 |

## Nearby airports

No open airport within 150 km / 93 mi.

## In collections

- [Northernmost airline service](https://dromopedia.com/collections/northernmost) #9

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Arctic Bay Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arctic_Bay_Airport&oldid=1363014018), revision of 7 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyab/data