YHY

Hay River / Merlyn Carter Airport

ICAO CYHY60.8397°N 115.7830°W165 m / 541 ftMedium airport
On the map

Hay River / Merlyn Carter Airport (IATA: YHY, ICAO: CYHY) is a medium airport in Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada. It has 2 runways; the longest is 1,829 m (6,000 ft). In 2021 it handled 9 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
14/32154° / 334° · LIT
LENGTH1,829 m6,000 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEAsphalt
05/23066° / 246° · LIT
LENGTH1,220 m4,001 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEPaved

Passengers per year

2008–2021
26K
25K
26K
25K
26K
24K
25K
22K
31K
31K
18K
9K
080910111213141516172021

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsAir Tindi 3Canadian North 1Buffalo Airways 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from YHY. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Hay River/Merlyn Carter Airport” (revision of 25 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers9K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,719of 3,974 · #664 North America · #74 CALongest runway1,829 m6,000 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,612of 29,823 · =1,310 North America · =87 CAElevation165 m541 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=26,354of 43,341 · =12,654 North America · #1,078 CARunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =43 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

3 channels
A/DYELLOWKNIFE RDO126.700
CNTREDMONTON CNTR133.850
UNICMANDATORY FREQ122.300