# Cape Dorset Airport (YTE / CYTE)

**Cape Dorset Airport** (IATA: YTE, ICAO: CYTE) is a small airport in Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada. It has one runway, 1,219 m (4,000 ft) long, gravel. In 2008 it handled 6 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: YTE / CYTE
- Type: Small airport
- Serves: Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada
- Elevation: 50 m / 164 ft
- Coordinates: 64.2300, -76.5267
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,219 m / 4,000 ft
- Passengers: 6,227 (2008)
- Time zone: UTC-5/-4 · America/Iqaluit
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinngait_Airport (13 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3275167
- Weather station: CYTE
- Ident: CYTE

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 13T/31T | 1,219 m / 4,000 ft | 31 m / 100 ft | Gravel | 127° / 307° | yes |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [YFB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyfb.md) Iqaluit Airport · Canada · 392 km / 244 mi · Canadian North

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (1)

- 5T [Canadian North](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/canadian-north) · 1

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 6K (2008) | #2,870 of 3,974 | #734 in North America | #83 in CA |
| Longest runway | 1,219 m / 4,000 ft | =9,646 of 29,858 | =3,829 in North America | =325 in CA |
| Elevation | 50 m / 164 ft | =34,868 of 43,403 | =15,883 in North America | =1,244 in CA |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =2,583 in North America | =233 in CA |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AWOS | AWOS | 128.700 |
| ATF | MANDATORY FREQ | 122.100 |
| RDO | ARPT RDO | 122.100 |

## Nearby airports

No open airport within 150 km / 93 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: “Kinngait Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kinngait_Airport&oldid=1363049264), 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/cyte/data