# Hay River / Merlyn Carter Airport (YHY / CYHY)

**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.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: YHY / CYHY
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada
- Elevation: 165 m / 541 ft
- Coordinates: 60.8397, -115.7830
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 1,829 m / 6,000 ft
- Passengers: 9,294 (2021)
- Time zone: UTC-7/-6 · America/Edmonton
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay_River/Merlyn_Carter_Airport (13 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2893712
- Weather station: CYHY · WMO 71935
- Ident: CYHY

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 14/32 | 1,829 m / 6,000 ft | 46 m / 150 ft | Asphalt | 154° / 334° | yes |
| 05/23 | 1,220 m / 4,001 ft | 46 m / 150 ft | Paved | 066° / 246° | yes |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2008 | 26,222 | Wikidata |
| 2009 | 25,254 | Wikidata |
| 2010 | 25,922 | Wikidata |
| 2011 | 25,054 | Wikidata |
| 2012 | 25,691 | Wikidata |
| 2013 | 24,183 | Wikidata |
| 2014 | 24,803 | Wikidata |
| 2015 | 21,707 | Wikidata |
| 2016 | 30,516 | Wikidata |
| 2017 | 30,568 | Wikidata |
| 2020 | 18,420 | Wikidata |
| 2021 | 9,294 | Wikidata |

## Routes

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

### Year-round (3)

- [YZF](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyzf.md) Yellowknife International Airport · Canada · 194 km / 121 mi · Canadian North, Air Tindi
- [YSM](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cysm.md) Fort Smith Airport · Canada · 229 km / 142 mi · Air Tindi
- [YEG](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyeg.md) Edmonton International Airport · Canada · 848 km / 527 mi · Air Tindi

### Cargo (1)

- [YZF](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyzf.md) Yellowknife International Airport · Canada · 194 km / 121 mi · Buffalo Airways

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (2)

- 8T [Air Tindi](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/air-tindi) · 3
- 5T [Canadian North](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/canadian-north) · 1

### Cargo (1)

- J4 [Buffalo Airways](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/buffalo-airways) · 1

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 9K (2021) | #2,719 of 3,974 | #664 in North America | #74 in CA |
| Longest runway | 1,829 m / 6,000 ft | =4,614 of 29,858 | =1,310 in North America | =87 in CA |
| Elevation | 165 m / 541 ft | =26,383 of 43,403 | =12,658 in North America | #1,078 in CA |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =435 in North America | =43 in CA |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A/D | YELLOWKNIFE RDO | 126.700 |
| CNTR | EDMONTON CNTR | 133.850 |
| UNIC | MANDATORY FREQ | 122.300 |

## Nearby airports

- [CYJP](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyjp.md) Fort Providence Airport · 112 km / 69 mi
- [YFR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyfr.md) Fort Resolution Airport · 119 km / 74 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: “Hay River/Merlyn Carter Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hay_River/Merlyn_Carter_Airport&oldid=1371265805), revision of 25 Aug 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/cyhy/data