Baker Lake Airport (CYBK), Nunavut
Landing essentials
Whether you can land, whether you can refuel, and how customs works here.
Overview
Baker Lake Airport (CYBK) serves the Nunavut community of Baker Lake with a single gravel runway. Traffic at this field is tracked by the FAA as cross-border activity rather than total local movements.
Runways
Baker Lake Airport has one unpaved runway, 16T/34T, 4,200 ft long and 100 ft wide, with a gravel surface.
Runway geometry from published threshold coordinates. Not for navigation.
Source: FAA Form 5010.
Business aviation traffic
Baker Lake Airport recorded 490 business aviation movements in 2025. Traffic peaks in November. Business aviation traffic at CYBK is somewhat concentrated toward the November and March-to-April period, with the lowest monthly count recorded in August.
Cross-border movements to the United States, FAA TFMSC count. Peak month November, 50 movements in 2025.
FAA TFMSC records a movement outside the United States only when the flight enters US airspace. This is cross-border traffic, not total activity at the airfield.
Source: FAA TFMSC, cross-border movements, 2025.
Climate
Baker Lake Airport averages 0.2 days above 90°F in July, 31.0 freeze days in January and 1.1 snow days in October. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 63.5°F, and February the coldest, at -16.8°F.
Weather station is on the field. 1991–2020 climate normals.
Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Alternates
Baker Lake Airport has one alternate within 139 NM. The nearest alternate is Rankin Inlet Airport (CYRT), 138.52 NM southeast.
Source: Skystar calculation from official coordinates.
Skystar at CYBK
We arrange catering, fuel and trip support here. Supplier prices reach you unchanged; our coordination fee sits on its own line.
The same order, priced two ways.
$600.00 catering order at CYBK.
Unchanged.
What the kitchen invoices us is what your quote reads.
One line, fixed.
The $75 minimum applies below $862.50.
At cost.
Passed on at the exact amount the processor took.
Market practice figures are industry averages, not a specific competitor.
Frequently asked questions
What is the runway surface at CYBK?
Baker Lake Airport (CYBK) has one runway, 16T/34T, measuring 4,200 feet by 100 feet with a gravel surface. There is no paved runway data recorded for this field, so operators should plan for gravel-runway performance figures.
How much business aviation traffic does Baker Lake Airport see?
CYBK recorded 490 business aviation operations against a total of 2,129 operations in 2025, according to FAA TFMSC cross-border traffic data. Monthly volumes stay in the 29 to 50 range, with no single month dominating the total.
What is the nearest airport to CYBK for diversion planning?
Rankin Inlet Airport lies 138.52 nautical miles from Baker Lake Airport (CYBK), on a bearing of 128 degrees. It is the only neighboring field listed for this location, useful for dispatchers evaluating alternates in the region.