Ekati Airport

Ekati Airport at left centre, with the four pits of the mine, August 2010

IATA: YOA – ICAO: CYOA

Summary

Airport type

Private

Operator

BHP Billiton Canada Inc.

Location

• Summer (DST)

Elevation AMSL

1,536 ft / 468 m

Map

CYOA

Location in the Northwest Territories

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
02/20	6,411	1,954	Gravel

Ekati Airport (IATA: YOA, ICAO: CYOA) is located at the Ekati Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada and is operated by BHP Billiton Canada Inc.^[2] Prior permission is required to land except in the case of an emergency. It is a busy aerodrome with blasting in the area and barren-ground caribou may be found on the runway.^[1]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
First Air	Charter: Yellowknife

1 2 Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 15 September 2016 to 0901Z 10 November 2016
↑ "EKATI Diamond Mine 2009 Year in Review" (PDF). BHP Billiton Canada Inc. 2009. Retrieved 2010-06-06.

Past three hours METARs, SPECI and current TAFs for Ekati Airport from Nav Canada as available.

Assets

Current

Mines	Area C mine Cerrejón (33.33%) Escondida (57.5%) Goonyella Riverside Mine¹ Jimblebar mine Leinster Nickel Mount Keith Mine Mount Whaleback mine (85%) Olympic Dam Orebodies 18, 23 and 25 mine (85%) Peak Downs Mine¹ Resolution Copper (50%) Yandi mine (85%) Yarrie mine (85%) Yeelirrie uranium project

Other	Atlantis PQ (44%) Douglas Complex Ekati Airport Goldsworthy railway Mad Dog oil field (23.9%) Moranbah Airport¹ Mount Newman railway North West Shelf Venture (16.67% LNG phase, 8.33% domestic gas phase) VF2388

Former

Acquisitions

People

Other

¹Assets of BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance, a joint venture between BHP Billiton (50%) and Mitsubishi Corporation (50%)

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