# Baker Lake Airport (YBK / CYBK)

**Baker Lake Airport** (IATA: YBK, ICAO: CYBK) is a medium airport in Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada. It has one runway, 1,280 m (4,200 ft) long, gravel. In 2010 it handled 16 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: YBK / CYBK
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada
- Elevation: 18 m / 59 ft
- Coordinates: 64.2989, -96.0778
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,280 m / 4,200 ft
- Passengers: 15,774 (2010)
- Time zone: UTC-6/-5 · America/Rankin_Inlet
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Lake_Airport (13 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2875792
- Weather station: CYBK · WMO 71926
- Ident: CYBK

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 16T/34T | 1,280 m / 4,200 ft | 31 m / 100 ft | Gravel | 162° / 342° | yes |

- 16T/34T slopes 1.2%: threshold 34T at 3 m / 10 ft, threshold 16T at 18 m / 59 ft.

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2009 | 15,179 | Wikidata |
| 2010 | 15,774 | Wikidata |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [YRT](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyrt.md) Rankin Inlet Airport · Canada · 257 km / 160 mi · Calm Air

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (1)

- MO [Calm Air](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/calm-air) · 1

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 16K (2010) | #2,525 of 3,974 | #600 in North America | #67 in CA |
| Longest runway | 1,280 m / 4,200 ft | =8,998 of 29,858 | =3,450 in North America | =311 in CA |
| Elevation | 18 m / 59 ft | =38,756 of 43,403 | =17,584 in North America | #1,354 in CA |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =2,583 in North America | =233 in CA |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FSS | ARCTIC RDO | 568.000 |
| UNIC | ARPT RDO | 122.100 |

## Nearby airports

- [CMB2](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cmb2.md) Meadowbank Airport · 81 km / 50 mi

## 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: “Baker Lake Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baker_Lake_Airport&oldid=1363015884), 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/cybk/data