YRB

Resolute Bay Airport

ICAO CYRB74.7169°N 94.9694°W66 m / 215 ftMedium airport
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Resolute Bay Airport (IATA: YRB, ICAO: CYRB) is a medium airport in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada. It has one runway, 1,981 m (6,500 ft) long, gravel. In 2024 it handled 7 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 2011–2011
20 AUG 2011
DisasterFirst Air Flight 6560.12 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
17T/35T167° / 347° · LIT
LENGTH1,981 m6,500 ftWIDTH61 m200 ftSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2015–2024
4K
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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from YRB. From the Wikipedia article “Resolute Bay Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers7K (2024)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,813of 3,974 · #708 North America · #79 CALongest runway1,981 m6,500 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,090of 29,823 · =1,025 North America · =70 CAElevation66 m215 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=33,476of 43,341 · =15,316 North America · =1,211 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

2 channels
RCOARCTIC RDO126.700
RDOARPT RDO122.100