Iqaluit Airport (Inuktitut: ᐃᖃᓗᖕᓂ ᒥᑦᑕᕐᕕᒃ) (IATA: YFB, ICAO: CYFB) serves Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada and is located adjacent to the city.
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Apr 26, 2017 · The origin of Iqaluit's airfield goes back to the darkest days of World War II. By 1941, transatlantic shipping from North America to Europe ...
May 5, 2022 · The Iqaluit Airport is more than the gateway to much of the Canadian Arctic, it has a long history that includes having a role in one of ...
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Located at the crossroads of both polar and high North Atlantic air routes, Iqaluit airport can handle any type of aircraft. ... war that followed Second World ...
Dec 24, 2015 · These WW II fields are now civilian airports and provide a route for shorter-range aircraft crossing the northern Atlantic while avoiding a high ...
The Crimson Route was a set of joint United States and Canada transport routes planned for ferrying planes and material from North America to Europe during ...
May 10, 2018 · Iqaluit International Airport traces its origins to 1942, when the United States Air Force (USAF) built a major airbase at Koojesse Inlet, near ...
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During World War II, the U.S. Army Air Forces selected a lonely stretch on Baffin Island to use as an airfield to ferry planes from North America to Europe.
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It was closed in 1963 and became a civilian airport Frobisher Bay Airport (Iqaluit Airport ... airport for use in trans-Atlantic air traffic. ... The use of ...
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Founded as Frobisher Bay Air Base in 1942 by both the US and Canadian governments as a logistical hub and stopover point on trans-polar flights, Iqaluit ...