Resolute Bay Airport | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Operator | Government of Nunavut | ||||||||||
Location | Resolute, Nunavut | ||||||||||
Time zone | CST (UTC−06:00) | ||||||||||
• Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC−05:00) | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 222 ft / 68 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 74°43′01″N094°58′10″W / 74.71694°N 94.96944°W Coordinates: 74°43′01″N094°58′10″W / 74.71694°N 94.96944°W | ||||||||||
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Resolute Bay Airport( IATA : YRB, ICAO : CYRB) is located at Resolute, Nunavut, Canada, and is operated by the government of Nunavut. It is one of the northernmost airfields in Canada to receive scheduled passenger airline service (Grise Fiord Airport, which is served from Resolute, is the northernmost airport with airline service in Canada while Alert Airport is the northernmost airport in Canada and the world).
The airport has served as a major transportation hub in the Canadian Arctic. Today the airport is an important refuelling stop for aircraft passing through to other places in the high Arctic such as CFS Alert, Eureka and Mould Bay. Unlike some airports in Nunavut, Resolute is equipped with an ILS precision landing system, allowing for large commercial aircraft operations. The VOR/DME is located atop a hill near the airport. The airport is not equipped with radar; however, during 2011's Operation Nanook, a temporary radar installation was used for the duration of that exercise. [4]
The Royal Canadian Air Force is considering a major expansion of the airport to transform it into a key base for Arctic operations. The expansion would include a 3,000 m (9,843 ft) paved runway, hangars, fuel installations and other infrastructure.
The site would provide logistics for search and rescue operations according to a December 2011 briefing from the Arctic Management Office at 1 Canadian Air Division. [5]
This section needs to be updated.(January 2022) |
Airlines | Destinations |
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Canadian North | Arctic Bay, Grise Fiord, Iqaluit, Pond Inlet [6] |
Kenn Borek Air operated by Unaalik Aviation | Grise Fiord [7] |
Kenn Borek Air also operates charter flights.
Historically, the airport was served by several airlines operating direct, no-change-of-plane scheduled passenger jet service from such Canadian cities as Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Yellowknife. Airlines included Canadian Airlines, Nordair, Pacific Western Airlines and Transair. Jet aircraft operated in the past in scheduled service into the airport included Boeing 727 and Boeing 737 jetliners. First Air also operated scheduled jet service with Boeing 727-200 as well as with Boeing 727-100 and Boeing 737-200 aircraft in the past.
Nordair was serving Resolute in 1964 with Douglas DC-4 prop aircraft, with twice-weekly flights from Montreal Dorval Airport via intermediate stops in Fort Chimo (now Kuujjuaq), Frobisher Bay (now Iqaluit) and Hall Beach (now Sanirajak). [8] In 1968, Nordair was operating nonstop service from Montreal twice a week with Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation propliners, with the southbound Constellation return flights to Montreal making an intermediate stop in Frobisher Bay, with the airline also operating twice-weekly Douglas DC-4 service to Montreal at this time via en route stops in Frobisher Bay and Hall Beach. [9] Pacific Western Airlines was serving Resolute by 1969 with Douglas DC-6 service, flown once a week, with this flight operating a routing of Edmonton - Yellowknife - Cambridge Bay - Resolute. [10] By 1970, Nordair had introduced Boeing 737-200 jet service direct to Montreal Dorval Airport, with three flights a week being operated via a stop in Frobisher Bay. [11]
According to the February 1, 1976 Official Airline Guide (OAG), three airlines were flying scheduled passenger jet service into the Resolute Bay Airport at this time: Nordair, operating Boeing 737-200 flights twice a week from Montreal Dorval Airport via an intermediate stop in Frobisher Bay; Pacific Western Airlines, operating Boeing 727-100 flights twice a week on a routing of Calgary International Airport - Edmonton International Airport - Yellowknife Airport - Resolute Bay Airport; and Transair, operating Boeing 737-200 flights once a week from Winnipeg via an intermediate stop in Churchill. [12]
The September 15, 1994 OAG listed two airlines flying scheduled jet service into the airport at that time: Canadian Airlines (which formerly operated as CP Air), operating direct Boeing 737 flights from Edmonton twice a week and also twice a week direct from Montreal; and First Air, operating direct Boeing 727 flights from Ottawa once a week in addition to nonstop 727 flights from Yellowknife once a week. [13] Canadian Airlines flights from Edmonton International Airport made intermediate stops in Yellowknife and Cambridge Bay while its flights from Montreal Dorval Airport made intermediate stops at Iqaluit Airport and Nanisivik Airport. The First Air service from Ottawa also made intermediate stops in Iqaluit and Nanisivik. The OAG indicates that Canadian and First Air were both operating gravel kit-equipped combi aircraft versions of their respective Boeing jets on their flights into the airport, with these aircraft being capable of being flown in mixed passenger/freight configuration,and also listed local flights into Resolute from Grise Fiord, Nanisivik and Pond Inlet, operated by Kenn Borek Air with de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter: an STOL turboprop aircraft.
As of early 2022, Canadian North serves Resolute only with twin-turboprop ATR-42 aircraft. Its sole route to Resolute is from Iqaluit, with a stop at Arctic Bay. Boeing 737 jet connections are provided between Montreal/Ottawa and Iqaluit. Any future jet service to Resolute from southern Canadian cities cannot land at Arctic Bay en route, because it has only a 3,935-foot-long runway. The 6,400-foot runway at nearby Nanisivik Airport was closed to civilian air traffic on January 13, 2011, and is 9.2 miles from the new Nanisivik Naval Facility being constructed near Nanisivik. A key reason for siting the new Canadian naval base there is the prior presence of the "jet-capable" runway, which will now become part of the new naval base. [14] [15]
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