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Iqaluit Airport

ICAO CYFB63.7564°N 68.5558°W34 m / 110 ftMedium airport
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Iqaluit Airport (IATA: YFB, ICAO: CYFB) is a medium airport in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. It opened in 1942. It has one runway, 2,623 m (8,605 ft) long, asphalt. In 2021 it handled 99 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1942–1942
1942
OpenedIqaluit Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Old AirportIqaluit Airport (YFB)
16/34137° / 317° · LIT
LENGTH2,623 m8,605 ftWIDTH61 m200 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2010–2021
129K
140K
157K
141K
99K
1011152021

Routes

5 destinations · 2 countries
Most destinationsCargojet 4Air Greenland 1Canadian North 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from YFB. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Iqaluit Airport” (revision of 12 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers99K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,824of 3,974 · #412 North America · #45 CALongest runway2,623 m8,605 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,017of 29,823 · =445 North America · #31 CAElevation34 m110 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=36,447of 43,341 · =16,549 North America · =1,288 CAAgeOpened 19422026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,791of 15,079 · =924 North America · =32 CARunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =2,582 North America · =233 CA
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

7 channels
MFIqalluit Radio, 5nm below 3100ASL122.200
PALMontreal Control134.550
FSSRDO122.200
INTL AIRGander Radio126.900
VDF122.200
RCOArtic Radio, (FISW)123.275
APRON ADV122.925