# Cambridge Bay Airport (YCB)

> Cambridge Bay, CA · IATA: YCB · ICAO: CYCB · Medium Airport · Cargo Hub

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `YCB` |
| ICAO | `CYCB` |
| City | Cambridge Bay |
| Country | CA |
| Type | Medium Airport |
| Elevation | 27 m |
| Cargo | ✅ |
| GPS | 69.10810, -105.13800 |

## Description

Canadian North is effectively the entire scheduled network at Cambridge Bay Airport (YCB/CYCB) in Nunavut, flying ATR 42 turboprops on roughly 60 departures a month to four destinations: Yellowknife with about 36 monthly flights, plus Kugluktuk, Taloyoak and Kugaaruk. The public airport lies some three kilometres south-west of the hamlet on Victoria Island and is operated by the Government of Nunavut. Cargo is accepted through the airline's cargo service and travels in the same aircraft, with dedicated freighters appearing only on an ad hoc basis for construction and mining work. What flies is what cannot wait: fresh food, mail, medical supplies and spare parts, since there is no road connection to southern Canada. Heavy and bulky goods — building materials, vehicles, machinery, canned stock — arrive instead on the annual sealift, when ocean vessels sail from southern Canadian ports during the short Arctic summer; sealift is by far the cheapest way to move bulk, and missing the sailing means waiting a year or paying air freight rates. Southern consolidation points are Yellowknife (YZF) in the Northwest Territories and Edmonton (YEG), Canada's practical gateway to the Arctic, with Iqaluit (YFB) covering eastern Nunavut. Cambridge Bay also hosts the Canadian High Arctic Research Station and serves as a call for Northwest Passage shipping, which adds summer demand for urgent parts and express consignments.

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