# Fort Chipewyan Airport (YPY / CYPY)

**Fort Chipewyan Airport** (IATA: YPY, ICAO: CYPY) is a medium airport in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, Canada. It has one runway, 1,524 m (5,000 ft) long, asphalt. In 2010 it handled 10 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: YPY / CYPY
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, Canada
- Elevation: 232 m / 761 ft
- Coordinates: 58.7672, -111.1170
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,524 m / 5,000 ft
- Passengers: 9,788 (2010)
- Time zone: UTC-7/-6 · America/Edmonton
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Chipewyan_Airport (8 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3914677
- Weather station: CYPY
- Ident: CYPY

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 04/22 | 1,524 m / 5,000 ft | 46 m / 150 ft | Asphalt | 051° / 231° | yes |

- 04/22 slopes 1.1%: threshold 04 at 215 m / 705 ft, threshold 22 at 231 m / 758 ft.

## Routes

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

### Year-round (4)

- [YSM](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cysm.md) Fort Smith Airport · Canada · 147 km / 91 mi · Air Tindi
- [YMM](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cymm.md) Fort McMurray International Airport · Canada · 235 km / 146 mi · McMurray Aviation
- [YZF](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyzf.md) Yellowknife International Airport · Canada · 449 km / 279 mi · Air Tindi
- [YEG](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyeg.md) Edmonton International Airport · Canada · 626 km / 389 mi · Air Tindi

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (2)

- 8T [Air Tindi](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/air-tindi) · 3
- McMurray Aviation · 1

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 10K (2010) | #2,703 of 3,974 | #658 in North America | #73 in CA |
| Longest runway | 1,524 m / 5,000 ft | =6,591 of 29,858 | =2,430 in North America | =182 in CA |
| Elevation | 232 m / 761 ft | =22,137 of 43,403 | =10,452 in North America | #908 in CA |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =2,583 in North America | =233 in CA |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ATF | ATF | 123.200 |
| RCO | EDMONTON RDO | 123.450 |

## Nearby airports

- [XCL](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cjs3.md) Cluff Lake Airport · 102 km / 63 mi
- [CFM2](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cfm2.md) Birch Mountain Airport · 126 km / 78 mi
- [CA-0731](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ca-0731.md) Fort Smith (Four Mile Lake) Water Aerodrome · 138 km / 86 mi
- [CJP6](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cjp6.md) Camsell Portage Airport · 141 km / 88 mi
- [CFL9](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cfl9.md) Johnson Lake Airport · 141 km / 88 mi
- [CJP9](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cjp9.md) Charlot River Airport · 146 km / 91 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: “Fort Chipewyan Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fort_Chipewyan_Airport&oldid=1363037545), 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/cypy/data