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"Naujaat Airport, formerly Repulse Bay Airport, (IATA: YUT, ICAO: CYUT) is located at Naujaat, Nunavut, Canada, and is operated by the government of Nunavut."
Meadowbank mine should arrive to EOL in 2018. The airstrip will be closed during the restoration process after the mine closure. Expect the runway to disappear at the end of 2018 or in the beginning of 2019
First Air friend reported drunken fss, drunken maintenance c
I was just chatting with a friend who works for First Air up in Resolute. He was telling me that this past fall the CARS guy was wasted at work and they had to wake him up. Then later the same week the maintenance guy was suspended for driving drunk on the airstrip. He was telling me that first air had a bad crash there last year, a 737. Loss of life/aircraft. He said the guys were playing video games in the office when it happened. The weather was way off from what the guy was reporting then (the same guy who was drunk and had to be woken up before). Somebody has to stand up and do something about this kind of lawless operation in the north. It's aviation for x sakes, not a janitorial business. Transport should run these northern communities directly to ensure they are operated up to standard. How many people are going to die or risk their lives before something is done?
Borek is based in Calgary. The have an ops in iqualiut and resolute. Forget landing here in anything but a gentle breeze. Tight approach rwy 35 i think. RWY17 is for CAVOK and calm, daylight only. Takeoff is 17 only. The strip has some soft spots, a small wheeled plane could definitely end up in trouble here. I can't remember how long the strip is but less than 2000'. Seldom staffed. Drunk weather guy, drunk maintenance. Or if you are lucky they are all together absent. The most unreliable operation I have seen (possibly tied with Coral Harbor NWT or Iglooklik.) That is a place that I would be happy and relieved to here a VGM from! Pathetic operation it is.
The maintenance folk go on and off the strip whenever they feel like it. Radio man is clueless about it. I was taking off here once and just as I was turning at the button the truck casually meandered out on the runway. When he saw me (almost on top of the plane he darted back and forth like a deer in the lights kinda thing. I called up CARS and asked her to repeat the traffic. She said (cheerily) none to report. I said ok thanks, just checking...heh heh (shakes his head)
The weather guys here are clueless. Hard to get people to show up when you want them to, airport operation isn't what I would call 'safe'. Same all over Canada's north.
100 LL is available here. Time-expired but still good. Drums are sealed. About $450 per drum, full drums only. Co-Op is the dealer (867) 982-4231. Call-out charges after-hours. Bring your own pump, bung wrench and filter.
No tie-downs. 5,500 x 150 gravel.
Overnight stays not recommended if on floats due to exposed location, limited beach area and vandalism. Since you won't get an overnight hotel room during the summer anyway, fly out to a good fishing spot and camp for the night.
No camping at the airport but there is a campsite about a mile from the airport. No taxi - you'll have to bum a ride (what can I say - we're embarrassingly backward!).
Contact the local resident pilot (through the RCMP) for possible assistance.
This strip was a mess the last time I saw it...early breakup that year. Came out in a ski mod twin otter, with the mud flying all over the sides of the plane...
Back earlier, in that winter, it was fine...we used an Electra and had Herc's in all the time...we drilled a single hole and left. (dry)...
Enjoyed an afternoon tea with Dr. Kent from BP London one day while there...he was fog'ed out of his strip and stopped by to wait it out. This was the "Head Knocker" of BP Oil's Geology Dept, found oil all over the world...very interesting guy to pass some time with...
I spent a day or two here at the end of a month-long sovereignty patrol. We started at Lupin Mine site, Nunavut (65 degrees 29' 12.61"N, 110 degrees 21'1.33"W) in rubber boats (15-man rubber assault boats, for those with military experience) and made out way north along the Burnside River, up Bathurst Inlet to the top of the Kent Peninsula. From there we were supposed to lash our little boats together and motor across Dease Strait to Byron Bay, where we'd be extracted by C-130. Well, we got socked in by weather on the south side of the crossing point, and started running low on food and fuel. Luckily, the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker HMCCGS Camsel was in the area, lifted us on board by helicoper, and ferried us across to Byron Bay on Victoria Island. The staff at the DEW station there treated us well, and we were warm and dry - a welcome change from our 33 days on the water and tundra. When the Hurc came in to get us, the gravel strip was so soft (it was beginning of August) he couldn't stop for fear of sinking into the muskeg, so we did an engine-running onload (plane rolling at the time), tossed the loadies our gear and packed-up inflatable boats, scrambled in the back while he taxied down the runway to the end, turned around, and took off for home. Looking back, it was quite an adventure. If anyone else out there remembers "OP OPINGAK ODYSEY", drop me a line at chris.maclean@community.royalroads.ca
For some weeks in early spring 1975 we flew CH-135s from Alert down along the coast to a place known only as Ho Hum Bay restocking batteries and working out on that thick, old ice, supporting Defence Research Establishment (Pacific), I think. Dropped by Fort Conger, Cape Aldrich, Hazen Lake. Drilled holes through the ice and tried to get the char to bite at something. The char had more luck than we had!
In those days the station consisted mostly of ATCO huts. Comfy enough for the time we were there. I hear it is different now.
Reply to @david: I read a couple of books by a Minnesota dentist who liked to take his Super Cub for trips around the Canadian North - it sounded like he often had to arrange for drums at places he was planning to stop, and he'd take the excess on board as baggage. Then he'd fly for a while, find a likely lake to drop into (he was on straight floats) and then transfer the fuel from the bags in the baggage compartment to the fuel tanks.
Thanks. It sounds like the Quebec side of James Bay and Hudson Bay is a better bet than the Ontario/Manitoba/NWT side -- I can't find any avgas between Moosonee and Churchill, except for maybe buying drums.
Reply to @philippe: I've been toying with the idea of flying up north some year, though not as far as Iqaluit. Are the drums 55 US gallons? That would be a bit of a pain in my Warrior, with a 48 US gallon usable fuel capacity.
Avgas here is sold in drums at CAD$449 each (reasonable seeing that it must be shipped by sea in summer only!). You can only buy full drums, so plan to arrive with enough room in the tanks.
A Summit Air Dornier on a charter passenger flight missed the Cambridge Bay runway and landed in an icy field. No serious injuries, but lots of damage to the plane (according to a witness):
Baker Lake is a small community in Nunavut, Canada. It is close to Rankin Inlet, Chesterfield Inlet, and Whale Cove. Fuel is available here (JET A for sure) and they publish a METAR and TAF for this airport. I have used this airport extensively in the past and the CARS (Community Aerodrome Radio Station) were extremely helpful calling for Cabs, the Fueler and the company that loaded my plane. I am not sure if there is more than one hotel in town but I stayed at the Igloo Inn which is a short cab ride into the community. Close by is the Northern Store, Hospital and High School to gain access to Internet.
There is rising terrain just to the North West of the airport so be careful at night or in poor visibility. Considering it's location it was pretty well suited with services that should take care of most peoples needs if they are just passing through.
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Former DEW Line station
🔗 Wed, 26 Jan 2022
— @david at Cape Peel DEW Line Station, Canada
This was a Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line station until 1963. The runway outline is still visible.
Ice runway
🔗 Wed, 26 Jan 2022
— @david at George Lake Aerodrome, Canada
This airport looks like it's a seaplane base, but it's actually a seasonal ice runway.
re: (no subject)
🔗 Tue, 01 Oct 2019
— @david at Naujaat Airport, Canada
Reply to @gabiLi: Thanks for letting us know! I've gone ahead and made the change.
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(no subject)
🔗 Tue, 01 Oct 2019
— @gabiLi at Naujaat Airport, Canada
It is now named Naujaat Airport:
"Naujaat Airport, formerly Repulse Bay Airport, (IATA: YUT, ICAO: CYUT) is located at Naujaat, Nunavut, Canada, and is operated by the government of Nunavut."
Source: wikipedia
hi
🔗 Thu, 09 Nov 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Resolute Bay Airport, Canada
yes
AVGAS AVAILABLE IN IQALUIT (CYFB)
🔗 Mon, 31 Aug 2015
— Anonymous Flyer at Iqaluit Airport, Canada
1 drum of avgas available in Iqaluit. date 2015/08/30
re: No Avgas at Iqaluit currently
🔗 Mon, 17 Aug 2015
— Anonymous Flyer at Iqaluit Airport, Canada
Reply to @philippe: Hi Philippe, we have a drum of avgas there if somebody needs assistance.
re: No Avgas at Iqaluit currently
🔗 Tue, 28 Jul 2015
— Anonymous Flyer at Iqaluit Airport, Canada
Reply to @philippe:
No Avgas at Iqaluit currently
🔗 Mon, 20 Jul 2015
— @philippe at Iqaluit Airport, Canada
They were all out as of mid-July 2015, none expected until August.
Facilities
🔗 Sun, 28 Jun 2015
— Anonymous Flyer at Cullaton Lake Airport, Canada
The mine shut down in 1985 and nothing remains at the airport.
I was there
🔗 Sat, 13 Jul 2013
— Anonymous Flyer at Igloolik Airport, Canada
I was there in 1978 and 1979
End Of Life
🔗 Sat, 08 Jun 2013
— @Xop777 at Meadowbank Airport, Canada
Meadowbank mine should arrive to EOL in 2018. The airstrip will be closed during the restoration process after the mine closure. Expect the runway to disappear at the end of 2018 or in the beginning of 2019
First Air friend reported drunken fss, drunken maintenance c
🔗 Sun, 05 May 2013
— @Mick11 at Resolute Bay Airport, Canada
I was just chatting with a friend who works for First Air up in Resolute. He was telling me that this past fall the CARS guy was wasted at work and they had to wake him up. Then later the same week the maintenance guy was suspended for driving drunk on the airstrip. He was telling me that first air had a bad crash there last year, a 737. Loss of life/aircraft. He said the guys were playing video games in the office when it happened. The weather was way off from what the guy was reporting then (the same guy who was drunk and had to be woken up before). Somebody has to stand up and do something about this kind of lawless operation in the north. It's aviation for x sakes, not a janitorial business. Transport should run these northern communities directly to ensure they are operated up to standard. How many people are going to die or risk their lives before something is done?
Pretty good
🔗 Sun, 05 May 2013
— @Mick11 at Cambridge Bay Airport, Canada
One of the 3 acceptable operations in the north. (Iquialiut and Rankin Inlet are the other two)
re: Not the base for Borek but anyway
🔗 Sun, 05 May 2013
— @Mick11 at Grise Fiord Airport, Canada
*should read rwy 14/32
Not the base for Borek but anyway
🔗 Sun, 05 May 2013
— @Mick11 at Grise Fiord Airport, Canada
Borek is based in Calgary. The have an ops in iqualiut and resolute. Forget landing here in anything but a gentle breeze. Tight approach rwy 35 i think. RWY17 is for CAVOK and calm, daylight only. Takeoff is 17 only. The strip has some soft spots, a small wheeled plane could definitely end up in trouble here. I can't remember how long the strip is but less than 2000'. Seldom staffed. Drunk weather guy, drunk maintenance. Or if you are lucky they are all together absent. The most unreliable operation I have seen (possibly tied with Coral Harbor NWT or Iglooklik.) That is a place that I would be happy and relieved to here a VGM from! Pathetic operation it is.
Watch out!
🔗 Sun, 05 May 2013
— @Mick11 at Taloyoak Airport, Canada
The maintenance folk go on and off the strip whenever they feel like it. Radio man is clueless about it. I was taking off here once and just as I was turning at the button the truck casually meandered out on the runway. When he saw me (almost on top of the plane he darted back and forth like a deer in the lights kinda thing. I called up CARS and asked her to repeat the traffic. She said (cheerily) none to report. I said ok thanks, just checking...heh heh (shakes his head)
Same old same old north of 60...
🔗 Sun, 05 May 2013
— @Mick11 at Kugaaruk Airport, Canada
The weather guys here are clueless. Hard to get people to show up when you want them to, airport operation isn't what I would call 'safe'. Same all over Canada's north.
this is good airport
🔗 Wed, 20 Feb 2013
— Anonymous Flyer at Pelly Bay (DEW Site) Airport, Canada
Good
Kugluktuk (aka Coppermine pre-1996)
🔗 Fri, 15 Apr 2011
— Anonymous Flyer at Kugluktuk Airport, Canada
100 LL is available here. Time-expired but still good. Drums are sealed. About $450 per drum, full drums only. Co-Op is the dealer (867) 982-4231. Call-out charges after-hours. Bring your own pump, bung wrench and filter.
No tie-downs. 5,500 x 150 gravel.
Overnight stays not recommended if on floats due to exposed location, limited beach area and vandalism. Since you won't get an overnight hotel room during the summer anyway, fly out to a good fishing spot and camp for the night.
No camping at the airport but there is a campsite about a mile from the airport. No taxi - you'll have to bum a ride (what can I say - we're embarrassingly backward!).
Contact the local resident pilot (through the RCMP) for possible assistance.
larrywh AT netkaster.ca for further info.
Original User comment...early 1970's
🔗 Thu, 13 Jan 2011
— Anonymous Flyer at Lougheed Island Airport, Canada
This strip was a mess the last time I saw it...early breakup that year. Came out in a ski mod twin otter, with the mud flying all over the sides of the plane...
Back earlier, in that winter, it was fine...we used an Electra and had Herc's in all the time...we drilled a single hole and left. (dry)...
Enjoyed an afternoon tea with Dr. Kent from BP London one day while there...he was fog'ed out of his strip and stopped by to wait it out. This was the "Head Knocker" of BP Oil's Geology Dept, found oil all over the world...very interesting guy to pass some time with...
Contact info
🔗 Fri, 22 Oct 2010
— @david at Iqaluit Airport, Canada
Operator: +1 867 979-5224 (Nunavut government)
Fuel (Jet-A, 100LL by prior arrangement): +1 867 979-1620 or +1 867 979-2855
Contact info
🔗 Fri, 22 Oct 2010
— @david at Rankin Inlet Airport, Canada
Operator: +1 867 645-8200 (Nunavut government)
Fuel (100LL, Jet-A): +1 867 645-3150, +1 867 645-6920, +1 867 645-6922
Contact info
🔗 Fri, 22 Oct 2010
— @david at Cambridge Bay Airport, Canada
Operator: +1 867 983-4002 (Nunavut government)
Community Aerodrome Radio Service (CARS): +1 867 983-2501
Fuel (100LL, Jet-A): +1 867 983-2501
Contact info
🔗 Fri, 22 Oct 2010
— @david at Baker Lake Airport, Canada
Airport operator: +1 867 645-8200 (Nunavut government)
Community Aerodrome Radio Station (CARS): +1 867 793-2931
Fuel (100LL, Jet-A, Jet-B): +1 867 793-2234 or +1 867 793-2928
re: Gjoa Haven
🔗 Fri, 27 Aug 2010
— Anonymous Flyer at Gjoa Haven Airport, Canada
It is not FSS. it is staffed by observer/communicators at a community aerodrome radio station.
1985 (Maybe 1984) Visit
🔗 Tue, 24 Aug 2010
— Anonymous Flyer at Byron Bay DEW Line Station, Canada
I spent a day or two here at the end of a month-long sovereignty patrol. We started at Lupin Mine site, Nunavut (65 degrees 29' 12.61"N, 110 degrees 21'1.33"W) in rubber boats (15-man rubber assault boats, for those with military experience) and made out way north along the Burnside River, up Bathurst Inlet to the top of the Kent Peninsula. From there we were supposed to lash our little boats together and motor across Dease Strait to Byron Bay, where we'd be extracted by C-130. Well, we got socked in by weather on the south side of the crossing point, and started running low on food and fuel. Luckily, the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker HMCCGS Camsel was in the area, lifted us on board by helicoper, and ferried us across to Byron Bay on Victoria Island. The staff at the DEW station there treated us well, and we were warm and dry - a welcome change from our 33 days on the water and tundra. When the Hurc came in to get us, the gravel strip was so soft (it was beginning of August) he couldn't stop for fear of sinking into the muskeg, so we did an engine-running onload (plane rolling at the time), tossed the loadies our gear and packed-up inflatable boats, scrambled in the back while he taxied down the runway to the end, turned around, and took off for home. Looking back, it was quite an adventure. If anyone else out there remembers "OP OPINGAK ODYSEY", drop me a line at chris.maclean@community.royalroads.ca
1975
🔗 Fri, 18 Jun 2010
— Anonymous Flyer at Alert Airport, Canada
For some weeks in early spring 1975 we flew CH-135s from Alert down along the coast to a place known only as Ho Hum Bay restocking batteries and working out on that thick, old ice, supporting Defence Research Establishment (Pacific), I think. Dropped by Fort Conger, Cape Aldrich, Hazen Lake. Drilled holes through the ice and tried to get the char to bite at something. The char had more luck than we had!
In those days the station consisted mostly of ATCO huts. Comfy enough for the time we were there. I hear it is different now.
re: Ice Runway
🔗 Mon, 15 Feb 2010
— Anonymous Flyer at Doris Lake, Canada
Reply to @bcrosby: Also PPR as they have security up there. The other ice strip in the CFS is Gahcho Kue CGK2 which is PPR as well.
re: re: Avgas in drums
🔗 Thu, 27 Aug 2009
— @ptomblin at Iqaluit Airport, Canada
Reply to @david: I read a couple of books by a Minnesota dentist who liked to take his Super Cub for trips around the Canadian North - it sounded like he often had to arrange for drums at places he was planning to stop, and he'd take the excess on board as baggage. Then he'd fly for a while, find a likely lake to drop into (he was on straight floats) and then transfer the fuel from the bags in the baggage compartment to the fuel tanks.
re: Avgas in drums
🔗 Thu, 27 Aug 2009
— @david at Iqaluit Airport, Canada
Thanks. It sounds like the Quebec side of James Bay and Hudson Bay is a better bet than the Ontario/Manitoba/NWT side -- I can't find any avgas between Moosonee and Churchill, except for maybe buying drums.
re: Avgas in drums
🔗 Thu, 27 Aug 2009
— Anonymous Flyer at Iqaluit Airport, Canada
Reply to @david: drums are 205 litres/45 CDN gallons/54 US gallons.
re: Avgas in drums
🔗 Thu, 27 Aug 2009
— @david at Iqaluit Airport, Canada
Reply to @philippe: I've been toying with the idea of flying up north some year, though not as far as Iqaluit. Are the drums 55 US gallons? That would be a bit of a pain in my Warrior, with a 48 US gallon usable fuel capacity.
Avgas in drums
🔗 Thu, 27 Aug 2009
— @philippe at Iqaluit Airport, Canada
Avgas here is sold in drums at CAD$449 each (reasonable seeing that it must be shipped by sea in summer only!). You can only buy full drums, so plan to arrive with enough room in the tanks.
Ice Runway
🔗 Thu, 26 Mar 2009
— @bcrosby at Doris Lake, Canada
This is an ice runway that is in operation from Jan to Apr only. Check NOTAM for runway condition.
(I think this is the only ice runway in the CFS!)
Accident on 13 December 2008
🔗 Tue, 16 Dec 2008
— @david at Cambridge Bay Airport, Canada
A Summit Air Dornier on a charter passenger flight missed the Cambridge Bay runway and landed in an icy field. No serious injuries, but lots of damage to the plane (according to a witness):
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/12/15/summit-flight.html
re: north
🔗 Tue, 13 Nov 2007
— @david at Tanquary Fiord Airport, Canada
It's just a bit further south than Alert (CYLT), which is the most northerly permanent airport in the world.
north
🔗 Tue, 13 Nov 2007
— Anonymous Flyer at Tanquary Fiord Airport, Canada
its very north...i think its on top of the world! =P <3
Geographic Center of Canada
🔗 Tue, 24 Jul 2007
— @Flyin_Dutchman at Baker Lake Airport, Canada
Baker Lake is a small community in Nunavut, Canada. It is close to Rankin Inlet, Chesterfield Inlet, and Whale Cove. Fuel is available here (JET A for sure) and they publish a METAR and TAF for this airport. I have used this airport extensively in the past and the CARS (Community Aerodrome Radio Station) were extremely helpful calling for Cabs, the Fueler and the company that loaded my plane. I am not sure if there is more than one hotel in town but I stayed at the Igloo Inn which is a short cab ride into the community. Close by is the Northern Store, Hospital and High School to gain access to Internet.
There is rising terrain just to the North West of the airport so be careful at night or in poor visibility. Considering it's location it was pretty well suited with services that should take care of most peoples needs if they are just passing through.
Gjoa Haven
🔗 Tue, 24 Jul 2007
— Anonymous Flyer at Gjoa Haven Airport, Canada
Onlt been there in the summer. Nicest FSS crew around.
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