Hanover / Saugeen Municipal Airport (CYHS), Ontario
Landing essentials
Whether you can land, whether you can refuel, and how customs works here.
Overview
Hanover / Saugeen Municipal Airport (CYHS) serves the Hanover, Ontario area with two paved runways, the longer stretching 4,000 feet. The field carries a restricted customs designation and is best known regionally among general and business aviation operators crossing into this part of southwestern Ontario. Traffic here is light and cross-border volumes reported by the FAA reflect a small subset of overall movements at the airport.
Runways
Hanover / Saugeen Municipal Airport has two paved runways. The longest, 01/19, is 4,000 ft long and 75 ft wide, with an asphalt surface.
Runway geometry from published threshold coordinates. Not for navigation.
Runways are listed longest first.
Source: FAA Form 5010.
Customs
Hanover / Saugeen Municipal Airport has Canada Border Services Agency clearance available onsite, under a restricted regime rather than general clearance. The terms that apply to a given flight must be confirmed before departure.
Source: CBSA list of airports of entry.
Business aviation traffic
Hanover / Saugeen Municipal Airport recorded 47 business aviation movements in 2025. Traffic peaks in September. FAA-reported cross-border business aviation traffic at CYHS concentrates heavily in August and September, with September alone accounting for the highest monthly count of the year.
Cross-border movements to the United States, FAA TFMSC count. Peak month September, 16 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
Hanover / Saugeen Municipal Airport averages 2.9 days above 90°F in July and 29.6 freeze days in January. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 77.2°F, and January the coldest, at 26.1°F.
Weather station is 17.6 NM from the field. 1991–2020 climate normals.
Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Nearby airfields
Hanover / Saugeen Municipal Airport has five airfields within 37 NM. The closest is Wingham / Richard W. Levan Airport, 20.21 NM southwest.
Source: Skystar calculation from official coordinates.
Skystar at CYHS
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Frequently asked questions
What customs clearance is available at CYHS?
Hanover / Saugeen Municipal Airport holds an AOE/15 customs designation, meaning clearance is limited to a maximum of fifteen persons per aircraft. Crews planning a crossing into or out of Canada through CYHS need to confirm their party size falls within this limit before filing. This restriction applies regardless of aircraft size or type. Operators should plan clearance logistics accordingly.
How long is the main runway at Hanover / Saugeen Municipal Airport?
The primary runway at CYHS, designated 01/19, is a paved asphalt surface measuring 4,000 feet long and 75 feet wide. A secondary runway, 09/27, is shorter at 2,500 feet and narrower at 50 feet. Both runways are paved, giving operators a choice of alignment depending on wind conditions. The 01/19 runway represents the maximum paved length available at this field.
What is the level of business aviation traffic at CYHS?
Business aviation traffic reported by the FAA at Hanover / Saugeen Municipal Airport totaled 47 operations in 2025 out of 103 total annual operations tracked. This cross-border figure, sourced from FAA TFMSC data, does not represent the airport's full traffic count. Activity is light overall and concentrated in the summer and early fall months. CYHS falls into the moderate-traffic tier used by Skystar for this class of field.
Where are the nearest alternate airports to CYHS?
Several small airports lie within range of Hanover / Saugeen Municipal Airport for diversion planning. Wingham / Richard W. LeVan Airport sits about 20 nautical miles to the southwest, while Kincardine Municipal Airport is roughly 24 nautical miles to the west. Owen Sound / Billy Bishop Regional Airport is about 28 nautical miles to the north, and Wiarton Airport lies around 35 nautical miles north-northwest of CYHS.