CYAL · YAL

Alert Bay Airport

Alert Bay Airport (CYAL / YAL) is an airfield with scheduled airline service serving Alert Bay, British Columbia. The field lies at 240 ft (73 m) above sea level and has a single runway of 2,900 ft (884 m), asphalt. Its nearest neighbour is Port McNeill Airport (YMP), 4 nm W.

Alert Bay Airport is a smaller field, so Alārium does not attribute movements to it directly — but aircraft flying near it appear on the live map like any other, at their real altitude and on their real track.

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Location

Elevation
240 ft (73 m)
Coordinates
50.5822, -126.9160
Serving
Alert Bay
Region
British Columbia
Time zone
America/Vancouver

Runways1 · longest 2,900 ft

Length and width to scale · north up

The diagram shows each runway’s orientation and relative length, read from its designator — runway 09 points 90° magnetic. Threshold coordinates are not published for this field, so strips are drawn about its centre rather than where they sit on the ground. It is a diagram, not a chart to navigate by.

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLighting
09/272,900 ft884 m75 ftAsphalt

Nearby airfields

Runway and field data from the OurAirports public-domain dataset. Positions are ADS-B, which covers most but not all aircraft.