Abbotsford International Airport

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Abbotsford International Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorCity of Abbotsford
LocationAbbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Time zonePST (UTC−08:00)
 • Summer (DST)PDT (UTC−07:00)
Elevation AMSL194 ft / 59 m
Coordinates49°01′31″N 122°21′36″W / 49.02528°N 122.36000°W / 49.02528; -122.36000
Websitewww.abbotsfordairport.ca
Map
CYXX is located in British Columbia
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Location in British Columbia
CYXX is located in Canada
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CYXX (Canada)
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
07/25 9,597 2,925 Asphalt
01/19 5,328 1,624 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Aircraft movements (2022)174,748
Passengers1,275,484
Sources: Canada Flight Supplement[1] and Transport Canada[2]
Environment Canada[3]
Movements from Statistics Canada[4]
Passengers from Abbotsford Airport[5]
Aerial view of YXX

Abbotsford International Airport (IATA: YXX, ICAO: CYXX) is located in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, 2.2 nautical miles (4.1 km; 2.5 mi) southwest of the city centre. It is the second largest airport in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, after Vancouver International Airport (YVR), and is in close proximity to British Columbia Highway 1, and the US border. It is located about 65 kilometres (40 mi) from downtown Vancouver.

YXX offers daily domestic scheduled services and seasonal international scheduled services. The airport is equipped with a CAT 1 instrument landing system, on-site aircraft rescue and firefighting, and a fully serviced air terminal building with customs and passenger screening. It is classified as an airport of entry by Nav Canada and is staffed by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) for all scheduled international arrivals. CBSA also provides clearance services to all general aviation aircraft with no more than 15 passengers.[1]

Abbotsford Airport has a longstanding general aviation community and an established aerospace community, including Cascade Aerospace, the Conair Group, and the University of the Fraser Valley Aerospace Centre.

Abbotsford Airport is also home to the Abbotsford Shell Aerocentre FBO and flying schools, such as Coastal Pacific Aviation, Principal Air and Chinook Helicopters. YXX is highly visible to the public due to the Abbotsford International Airshow,[6] Defense & Security Expo,[7] and Tradex[8] events centre.

The facility covers 519 hectares (1,282 acres, 2.0 square miles) of airport property.[9]

There are approximately 87 hectares (215 acres) of land immediately available for airside and landside development. In 2023, 1,275,484 passengers passed through Abbotsford International Airport.[5]

In 2018, the airport announced it will undergo a $5 million, 14,000-square-foot expansion to add new gates and additional passenger seating capacity.[10]

  1. ^ a b Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 16 July 2020 to 0901Z 10 September 2020.
  2. ^ Airport Divestiture Status Report Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Synoptic/Metstat Station Information Archived 2013-06-27 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Aircraft movements, by civil and military movements, airports with NAV CANADA services and other selected airports, monthly
  5. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference 2023stats was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Abbotsford Airshow
  7. ^ Aerospace, Defense & Security Expo
  8. ^ "Tradex". Archived from the original on 2015-08-23. Retrieved 2015-08-18.
  9. ^ "About Abbotsford Int'l Airport". airport-technology.com. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  10. ^ "Abbotsford International Airport poised to hit a million passengers a year". Vancouver Sun. 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2018-03-23.