Iqaluit Airport code (YFB)

Iqaluit Airport serves Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada and is located adjacent to the town. Iqaluit Airport was founded as Frobisher Bay Air Base in 1942 by the United States Air Force. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s the base was used by the United States and Canada for transportation purposes. It hosts scheduled passenger service from Ottawa, Montreal, Rankin Inlet and Kuujjuaq on carriers such as First Air and Canadian North, and from smaller communities throughout eastern Nunavut. It is also used as a forward operating base by the CF-18 Hornet.

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