YXJ

Fort St John / North Peace Regional Airport

ICAO CYXJ56.2381°N 120.7400°W695 m / 2,280 ftMedium airport
On the map

Fort St John / North Peace Regional Airport (IATA: YXJ, ICAO: CYXJ) is a medium airport in Fort Saint John, British Columbia, Canada. It opened in 1940. It has 2 runways; the longest is 2,106 m (6,909 ft). In 2019 it handled 319 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1940–1940
1940
OpenedFort St John / North Peace Regional Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
North Peace Regional Airport
12/30135° / 315° · LIT
LENGTH2,106 m6,909 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEAsphalt
03/21045° / 225° · LIT · SLOPE 1.0%
LENGTH2,042 m6,698 ftWIDTH60 m198 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2013–2019
175K
246K
257K
241K
257K
296K
319K
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsWestJet Encore 2Air Canada Express 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from YXJ. From the Wikipedia article “Fort St. John Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers319K (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,310of 3,974 · #299 North America · #29 CALongest runway2,106 m6,909 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#3,566of 29,823 · #872 North America · #60 CAElevation695 m2,280 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=7,684of 43,341 · =3,577 North America · =239 CAAgeOpened 19402026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,114of 15,079 · =366 North America · =23 CARunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =43 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
A/GMF ST JOHN RDO118.500
ATISATIS128.500
CNTREDMONTON CNTR132.600
FSSRDO118.500
RCOEDMONTON RDO122.500