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Fort Nelson Airport

ICAO CYYE58.8364°N 122.5970°W382 m / 1,253 ftMedium airport
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Fort Nelson Airport (IATA: YYE, ICAO: CYYE) is a medium airport in Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. It has 2 runways; the longest is 1,951 m (6,400 ft). In 2012 it handled 68 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Fort Nelson Regional Airport Terminal
04/22057° / 237° · LIT
LENGTH1,951 m6,400 ftWIDTH61 m200 ftSURFACEAsphalt
08/26102° / 282°
LENGTH1,090 m3,575 ftWIDTH24 m77 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2012
44K
68K
1112

Routes

1 destinations · 1 country

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers68K (2012)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,964of 3,974 · #441 North America · #50 CALongest runway1,951 m6,400 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,175of 29,823 · =1,081 North America · #77 CAElevation382 m1,253 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=14,350of 43,341 · =6,216 North America · #589 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

8 channels
MFNelson Radio, 5nm below 4300ASL122.500
PALEdmonton Centre132.870
RADIONelson Radio, (E)122.500
VDF122.500
RCOEdmonton Radio, (E)123.550
ATIS125.650
PALEdmonton Centre134.850
PALEdmonton Centre290.600