YQY

Sydney / J.A. Douglas McCurdy Airport

ICAO CYQY46.1611°N 60.0498°W62 m / 203 ftMedium airport
On the map
Sydney Airport (2015)
Sydney Airport · CC0 · Commons

Sydney / J.A. Douglas McCurdy Airport (IATA: YQY, ICAO: CYQY) is a medium airport in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. It opened on 6 Jun 1929. It has 2 runways; the longest is 2,155 m (7,070 ft). In 2019 it handled 174 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1929–1929
06 JUN 1929
OpenedSydney / J.A. Douglas McCurdy Airport opens.
From Wikidata and WikipediaEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
JA Douglas McCurdy Sydney Airport
06/24046° / 226° · LIT
LENGTH2,155 m7,070 ftWIDTH61 m200 ftSURFACEAsphalt
18/36165° / 345° · LIT
LENGTH1,828 m5,997 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2019
182K
189K
191K
174K
15171819

Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
1,000 km2,000 km3,000 km4,000 km1,000 mi2,000 miYYC · Calgary International Airport · 3,913 km / 2,431 miYYCYQY

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from YQY. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “JA Douglas McCurdy Sydney Airport” (revision of 13 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers174K (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,593of 3,974 · #355 North America · #38 CALongest runway2,155 m7,070 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,416of 29,823 · #785 North America · #52 CAElevation62 m203 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=33,763of 43,341 · =15,455 North America · #1,219 CAAgeOpened 19292026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=369of 15,079 · =78 North America · =6 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
CNTRMONCTON CNTR118.600
FSSRDO122.000
RCOCHARLOTTETOWN RDO122.000