# Resolute Bay Airport (YRB / CYRB)

**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.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: YRB / CYRB
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada
- Elevation: 66 m / 215 ft
- Coordinates: 74.7169, -94.9694
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,981 m / 6,500 ft
- Passengers: 7,252 (2024)
- Time zone: UTC-6/-5 · America/Resolute
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolute_Bay_Airport (15 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3497622
- Weather station: CYRB · WMO 71924
- Ident: CYRB

## Timeline

- 20 Aug 2011: First Air Flight 6560. 12 killed.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 17T/35T | 1,981 m / 6,500 ft | 61 m / 200 ft | Gravel | 167° / 347° | yes |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 4,261 | Wikidata |
| 2016 | 4,653 | Wikidata |
| 2017 | 5,387 | Wikidata |
| 2018 | 4,916 | Wikidata |
| 2019 | 5,580 | Wikidata |
| 2020 | 4,951 | Wikidata |
| 2021 | 3,553 | Wikidata |
| 2022 | 6,443 | Wikidata |
| 2023 | 7,808 | Wikidata |
| 2024 | 7,252 | Wikidata |

## Routes

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

### Year-round (3)

- [YAB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyab.md) Arctic Bay Airport · Canada · 360 km / 224 mi · Canadian North
- [YGZ](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cygz.md) Grise Fiord Airport · Canada · 383 km / 238 mi · Canadian North
- [YFB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyfb.md) Iqaluit Airport · Canada · 1,575 km / 979 mi · Canadian North

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (1)

- 5T [Canadian North](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/canadian-north) · 3

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 7K (2024) | #2,813 of 3,974 | #708 in North America | #79 in CA |
| Longest runway | 1,981 m / 6,500 ft | =4,091 of 29,858 | =1,025 in North America | =70 in CA |
| Elevation | 66 m / 215 ft | =33,528 of 43,403 | =15,324 in North America | =1,211 in CA |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =2,583 in North America | =233 in CA |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| RCO | ARCTIC RDO | 126.700 |
| RDO | ARPT RDO | 122.100 |

## Nearby airports

- [CA-0771](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ca-0771.md) Arctic Watch Lodge Airport · 81 km / 50 mi

## In collections

- [Northernmost airline service](https://dromopedia.com/collections/northernmost) #6

## 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: “Resolute Bay Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Resolute_Bay_Airport&oldid=1363074623), 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/cyrb/data