YXT

Northwest Regional Airport Terrace-Kitimat

ICAO CYXT54.4685°N 128.5760°W217 m / 713 ftMedium airport
On the map

Northwest Regional Airport Terrace-Kitimat (IATA: YXT, ICAO: CYXT) is a medium airport in Terrace, British Columbia, Canada. It opened in 1943. It has 2 runways; the longest is 2,285 m (7,497 ft). In 2021 it handled 219 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1943–1943
1943
OpenedNorthwest Regional Airport Terrace-Kitimat opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
15/33172° / 352° · LIT
LENGTH2,285 m7,497 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEAsphalt
03/21051° / 231°
LENGTH1,638 m5,373 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2008–2021
120K
105K
122K
139K
183K
291K
277K
237K
168K
219K
08101112131415162021

Routes

7 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from YXT. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Northwest Regional Airport Terrace-Kitimat” (revision of 22 Jun 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

7 airlines · destinations from YXT
Passenger7
5TCanadian Northcharter · 39MCentral Mountain Air3WRWestJet Encore3NCBNorth Cariboo Aircharter · 2—Air Canada Express1
—Airco Aircraft Charterscharter · 1
—Summit Aircharter · 1

Former hub of Hawkair.

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers219K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,498of 3,974 · #331 North America · #34 CALongest runway2,285 m7,497 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,133of 29,858 · #684 North America · #48 CAElevation217 m713 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=23,139of 43,403 · =11,002 North America · #961 CAAgeOpened 19432026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,016of 15,079 · =1,078 North America · =35 CARunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=715of 29,978 · =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

4 channels
A/GMANDATORY FREQ RDO122.000
CNTRVANCOUVER CNTR128.400
RCOPACIFIC RDO126.700
RDORDO122.000