High Prairie Airport (CZHP), Alberta
Landing essentials
Whether you can land, whether you can refuel, and how customs works here.
Overview
High Prairie Airport (CZHP) is a low-traffic field in Alberta serving the High Prairie area. It offers a single paved runway and sits roughly 138 nautical miles from the nearest customs facility at CZVL.
Runways
High Prairie Airport has one paved runway, 07/25, 3,933 ft long and 75 ft wide, with an asphalt surface.
Runway geometry from published threshold coordinates. Not for navigation.
Source: FAA Form 5010.
Customs
High Prairie Airport does not clear customs. The nearest port of entry is Edmonton / Villeneuve Airport (CZVL), 138 NM away.
Source: CBSA list of airports of entry.
Business aviation traffic
High Prairie Airport recorded 555 business aviation movements in 2025. Traffic peaks in July. Business aviation traffic at CZHP is concentrated in certain months, with July showing the highest volume of the year and November the lowest.
Cross-border movements to the United States, FAA TFMSC count. Peak month July, 74 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.
Alternates
High Prairie Airport has five alternates within 84 NM. The nearest alternate is Swan Hills Airport, 56.69 NM southeast.
Part of the Northern Alberta and Peace River area.
Source: Skystar calculation from official coordinates.
Skystar at CZHP
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 CZHP.
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
Where is customs handled for CZHP?
High Prairie Airport (CZHP) has no customs service onsite. The nearest customs facility is CZVL, located approximately 138 nautical miles away, so crews arriving from abroad need to plan a stop there first.
How long is the runway at High Prairie Airport?
CZHP has a single paved runway, 07/25, measuring 3,933 feet long and 75 feet wide with an asphalt surface. This is the only runway available at High Prairie Airport for arrivals and departures.
What kind of traffic does CZHP see?
High Prairie Airport (CZHP) recorded 560 total annual operations in 2025 per FAA TFMSC data, with business aviation accounting for 555 of those movements. Monthly volumes vary, with July logging the highest count at 74 operations.