AviatDataNorman Wells Airport YVQ / CYVQ
Norman Wells, Northwest Territories · Canada · Government of the Northwest Territories (Department of Infrastructure, Airports Division)
Limited hoursJet A-1 · Avgas 100LL
ICAO / IATACYVQ / YVQ
OperatorGovernment of the Northwest Territories (Department of Infrastructure, Airports Division)
Coordinates65.2814°N, 126.7986°W
Elevation238 ft · 73 m
Time zoneMT (UTC-7/-6 DST)
Passengers / yr—
CustomsNo
Border controlNo
SchengenNo
FuelJet A-1 · Avgas 100LL
Bonded—
AIP referenceCYVQ — Canada Flight Supplement / NAV CANADA CFS
Operating hoursFlight Service Station (FSS) airport — one of only three in the NWT (with Yellowknife and Inuvik); fuel and full services generally available approx. 1400-2300Z, with call-out charges and 2-hour prior notice (PPR) required outside those hours.
TerminalsSingle small terminal building serving all scheduled and charter flights.
Runways (1)
- 10/28 · 1,828 m / 5,998 ft · 46 m wide · Asphalt/Concrete
Airport contact
One of only three NWT airports with a Flight Service Station (alongside Yellowknife and Inuvik); serves as the Sahtu regional hub connecting Tulita, Deline, Fort Good Hope and Colville Lake, and hosts North-Wright Airways' head office and hangar. Norman Wells is a Mackenzie River oil-production town reachable year-round only by air (plus a seasonal winter road/barge), with Canadian North and North-Wright Airways providing scheduled service; NWT is on permanent Mountain Time with the standard DST switch (unlike neighbouring Yukon, which abolished DST in 2020).
Services
Available
On request / PPR
Seasonal / ageing
Unconfirmed / not listed
Ground handling
Available · 3 providers
North-Wright Airways Ltd.
North-Wright Airways is home-based at Norman Wells Airport, with its main office and hangar located at the field, and self-handles its own scheduled passenger and charter ramp operations (baggage, marshalling, check-in). Per the company's own figures, it accounts for roughly 12,000-14,000 of the airport's approximately 20,000 annual movements.
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Canadian North
Canadian North operates a scheduled passenger station at Norman Wells. Company-wide, Canadian North uses its own Station Agent role (not a contracted third-party handler) for check-in, boarding and baggage/cargo loading at the communities it serves, consistent with self-handling, but no Norman Wells-specific handling-agent record was found to confirm this locally rather than via a local contractor.
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SRP Petroleum (SRP North Ventures Ltd.)
Aviation FBO/handler directories list SRP Petroleum/North Ventures as the FBO and handler at Norman Wells, also offering pilot and aircraft services alongside fuel, but the primary directory listing pages could not be directly retrieved to confirm the full scope of ground-handling services offered.
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Aircraft fuel
Available · 2 providers
World Kinect Corporation
World Fuel Services (World Kinect) is the wholesale aviation fuel distributor at Norman Wells: Imperial Oil sells jet fuel to World Fuel, which resells it to airlines serving the region including North-Wright Airways and Canadian North. Supply is barge/ice-road dependent and has faced periodic shortages -- e.g. a Dec 2023-Jan 2024 shortfall that put carriers on fuel rations -- which prompted World Fuel to airlift jet fuel from its Yellowknife depot to Norman Wells as an emergency measure.
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SRP Petroleum (SRP North Ventures Ltd.)
SRP Petroleum, a division of SRP North Ventures Ltd. and majority owned by the Colville Lake community, is the Esso/Imperial-branded fuel wholesaler and on-field fixed-base operator at Norman Wells Airport, selling Jet A and 100LL avgas directly to aircraft.
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De-icing
Available
North-Wright Airways Ltd.
GNWT's Department of Infrastructure has stated publicly that air carriers at several NWT airports -- including Fort Smith, Fort Simpson, Norman Wells, Yellowknife, Inuvik and Hay River -- have established their own (self-handled) de-icing capacity rather than relying on a third party or the airport. North-Wright, as the home-based resident carrier at YVQ, is the carrier this most plausibly applies to locally, though the department's statement was general and did not name individual carriers at each airport.
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Part-145 line maintenance
Not listed
Part-145 base maintenance
Available
North-Wright Airways Ltd.
Operates an in-house 80'x124' maintenance hangar built in 1995 at Norman Wells for heavy maintenance, per the company's own history; the facility also serves as North-Wright's head office and float base.
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Component shops & overhaul
Not listed
Flight catering
Not listed
Aircraft cleaning
Not listed
Ground support equipment
Available
Government of the Northwest Territories – Department of Infrastructure
Owns and operates Norman Wells Airport as one of 27 GNWT-maintained NWT airports, directly funding and performing airfield maintenance -- e.g. federally cost-shared runway-surface rehabilitation and a new airfield sweeper (over $300,000) for snow, ice and debris clearing on runways and taxiways.
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Cargo handling
Available · 3 providers
North-Wright Airways Ltd.
Self-handles general freight, drum-haul, gas deliveries and fuel-drop charters out of Norman Wells for Sahtu-region communities (Fort Good Hope, Deline, Tulita, Colville Lake) and worksites.
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Canadian North
Maintains a dedicated cargo office at Norman Wells for self-handled freight, independently confirmed by two separate airline-office directories listing the same local contact point. · Mon 10:00-14:00, Thu 10:00-16:00, Fri 10:00-15:00, Sun 10:00-17:00; closed Tue/Wed/Sat
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Buffalo Airways
Buffalo Airways has run charter/relief cargo flights, including a Boeing 737 freighter, from Yellowknife into Norman Wells (capacity near 42,000 lb/flight), notably to offset disrupted barge resupply during low-water years. Service is irregular/on-demand rather than a permanent scheduled operation and appears self-handled, with no separate local handler identified.
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Aviation security
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Passenger & crew transport
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Flight support
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Hotel & travel
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