YXC

Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport

ICAO CYXC49.6108°N 115.7820°W939 m / 3,082 ftMedium airport
On the map

Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport (IATA: YXC, ICAO: CYXC) is a medium airport in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada. It has one runway, 1,829 m (6,000 ft) long, asphalt. In 2019 it handled 181 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1978–1978
11 FEB 1978
DisasterPacific Western Airlines Flight 314.42 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
16/34178° / 358° · LIT
LENGTH1,829 m6,000 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2008–2019
106K
105K
106K
110K
113K
115K
125K
130K
129K
132K
175K
181K
080910111213141516171819

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsWestJet Encore 2Pacific Coastal Airlines 1Air Canada Express 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from YXC. From the Wikipedia article “Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport” (revision of 10 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers181K (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,578of 3,974 · #352 North America · #37 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 CAElevation939 m3,082 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=5,279of 43,341 · #2,642 North America · #89 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

4 channels
A/GMF122.300
CNTRVANCOUVER CNTR133.600
RCOPACIFIC RDO126.700
RDORDO122.300