Sioux Lookout Airport

ICAO CYXL50.1139°N 91.9053°W383 m / 1,258 ftMedium airport

Sioux Lookout Airport (IATA: YXL, ICAO: CYXL) is a medium airport in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Canada. It opened in 1933. It has one runway, 1,615 m (5,300 ft) long, asphalt. In 2021 it handled 56 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1933–1933

1933

OpenedSioux Lookout Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

16/34156° / 336° · LIT

LENGTH1,615 m5,300 ftWIDTH31 m100 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2019–2021

195K

62K

56K

192021

Routes

10 destinations · 1 country

Most destinationsNorth Star Air 7Perimeter Aviation 6Wasaya Airways 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from YXL. From the Wikipedia article “Sioux Lookout Airport” (revision of 8 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers56K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,042of 3,974 · #471 North America · #55 CA Longest runway1,615 m5,300 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=5,733of 29,823 · =1,884 North America · =150 CA Elevation383 m1,258 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=14,317of 43,341 · =6,203 North America · #587 CA AgeOpened 19332026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=521of 15,079 · =119 North America · #11 CA Runways11 · 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/DMF122.000

ATISATIS124.750

RCOWINNIPEG RDO126.000

RDORDO122.000