Fort Good Hope Airport

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Fort Good Hope Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorGovernment of the Northwest Territories
LocationFort Good Hope, Northwest Territories
Time zoneMST (UTC−07:00)
 • Summer (DST)MDT (UTC−06:00)
Elevation AMSL267 ft / 81 m
Coordinates66°14′26″N 128°38′51″W / 66.24056°N 128.64750°W / 66.24056; -128.64750
Map
CYGH is located in Northwest Territories
CYGH
CYGH
Location in the Northwest Territories
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
07/25 4,434 1,351 Gravel
Statistics (2010)
Aircraft movements2,060
Sources: Canada Flight Supplement[1]
Environment Canada[2]
Movements from Statistics Canada[3]

Fort Good Hope Airport (IATA: YGH, ICAO: CYGH) is an airport located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) southwest of Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, Canada.

Facilities

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A small terminal building with a waiting area is the airport's largest structure. There are no storage hangars at the airport.

Airport runway is gravel, so it handles mainly turboprops (small utility aircraft up to turboprop regional airliner), STOL, and other aircraft capable of landing on unpaved or snow covered surfaces.

Airlines and destinations

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The airport connects with a few communities within NWT. Destinations beyond requires connecting flights from Inuvik Airport as there is no direct passenger service to and from Yellowknife Airport.

AirlinesDestinations
North-Wright Airways Colville Lake, Inuvik, Norman Wells

Cargo

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AirlinesDestinations
Buffalo Airways Yellowknife

References

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  1. ^ Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 27 November 2025 to 0901Z 22 January 2026.
  2. ^ Synoptic/Metstat Station Information Archived December 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Total aircraft movements by class of operation
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