YVQ

Norman Wells Airport

ICAO CYVQ65.2816°N 126.7980°W73 m / 238 ftMedium airport
On the map

Norman Wells Airport (IATA: YVQ, ICAO: CYVQ) is a medium airport in Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, Canada. It has one runway, 1,828 m (5,998 ft) long, asphalt. In 2021 it handled 16 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Norman Wells Airport
10/28117° / 297° · LIT
LENGTH1,828 m5,998 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2021
37K
34K
38K
33K
28K
16K
111213141521

Routes

6 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from YVQ. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Norman Wells Airport” (revision of 25 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

3 airlines · destinations from YVQ
Passenger2
HWNorth-Wright Airways65TCanadian North2
Cargo1
J4Buffalo Airways1

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from YVQ. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers16K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,527of 3,974 · #601 North America · #68 CALongest runway1,828 m5,998 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,715of 29,858 · =1,394 North America · =112 CAElevation73 m238 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=32,997of 43,403 · =15,104 North America · =1,197 CARunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =2,583 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

3 channels
A/DEDMONTON CNTR134.825
A/GMF122.200
FSSNORMAN WELLS RDO122.200