General
The original buildings at the airport included a two-story airport terminal, an emergency power generator building and the aircraft refueling station. The terminal has since been replaced and a three-bay garage to house the maintenance vehicles has been added. At the time of construction the non-directional beacon (NDB) and control building were left just south of the community. The NDB was later moved (approximately 1981) to its present location at the airport. At the same time the control building was relocated to the airport.
The runway is the standard gravel strip that is seen in most Canadian Arctic communities and is 4,300 by 100 ft (1,311 by 30 m) with the centre 117 ft (36 m) above sea leavel (ASL). Due to a slight hump in the land it is not possible to see one end of the runway from the other. The taxiway was originally 50 ft (15 m) wide, however this had to be widened, to 75 ft (23 m) later to accommodate the four-engined Lockheed Electra.
Lighting consists of:
- Runway identification lights of the uni-directional flashing strobe type
- Red/green threshold/runway end lights
- Medium intensity (three settings) runway edge lights
- Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI) lights, type P1 for aircraft with eye to wheel height of up to 10 ft (3.0 m)
There is also a Type K ARCAL (Aircraft Radio Control of Aerodrome Lighting) system. However, the PAPI are not available with this system and can only be operated manually by a person at the airport.
Currently the only fuel available is turbine kerosene (Type JET A) and it is provided by a local contractor. METAR weather services are provided on a limited basis locally and a call out can be arranged for weather at other times. The radio station operates the same hours as the weather service and is in fact the same person. They use the standard CARS mandatory frequency of 122.1 MHz and they also monitor the emergency frequency of 121.5 MHz. The CARS also monitor the NDB which broadcasts the morse code identification "HI" on 361 kHz.
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