YRT

Rankin Inlet Airport

ICAO CYRT62.8114°N 92.1158°W29 m / 94 ftMedium airport
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Rankin Inlet Airport (IATA: YRT, ICAO: CYRT) is a medium airport in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada. It has one runway, 1,829 m (6,000 ft) long, asphalt. In 2024 it handled 144 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
13T/31T129° / 309° · LIT
LENGTH1,829 m6,000 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2008–2024
55K
54K
61K
72K
81K
129K
83K
92K
121K
135K
144K
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Routes

9 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsCalm Air 7Nolinor Aviation 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from YRT. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Rankin Inlet Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers144K (2024)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,678of 3,974 · #377 North America · #41 CALongest runway1,829 m6,000 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,612of 29,823 · =1,310 North America · =87 CAElevation29 m94 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=37,116of 43,341 · =16,849 North America · =1,306 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

5 channels
MFRankin Radio, 5nm below 3100ASL122.200
VDFVHF Direction Finding122.200
RCOArtic Radio (FISE)123.550
RDORankin Radio122.200
PALEdmonton Control134.000