NAQBGQQ

Qaanaaq Airport

Qaanaaq, Greenland · North America

North America America/Thule

3direct destinations

1airlines

1runway

1,010 mLongest runway

Qaanaaq Airport (Greenlandic: Mittarfik Qaanaaq; Danish: Thule Lufthavn) (IATA: NAQ, ICAO: BGQQ) is an airport located 1.9 NM (3.5 km; 2.2 mi) northwest of Qaanaaq, a settlement in the Avannaata municipality in northern Greenland. It was established in 2001 to serve Qaanaaq and neighboring communities because Thule Air Base in Pituffik is not open for regular passenger traffic. It is the only civilian airport north of Upernavik and is a lifeline for northern Greenland. Fresh food and other consumer products are transported by air.

Location

77.489°N, 69.389°O · 16 m s. n. m. (51 ft)

General data

CountryGreenland

CityQaanaaq

IATA codeNAQ

ICAO codeBGQQ

Coordinates77.489°N, 69.389°O

Elevation16 m s. n. m. (51 ft)

Time zoneAmerica/Thule

Runways1

Longest runway1,010 m

OperatorAeropuertos de Groenlandia

Direct destinations3

Official website

Runways · 1

17/35

Length1,010 m3,314 ft

Width100 m328 ft

SurfaceGravel

Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 1

Flight information

118.100Aerodrome Flight Information Service

Look for a live feed on LiveATC External site; not every airport has a feed.

Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.

Airlines operating here · 1

Other airlines with direct routes

Air Greenland

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

Photo: Greenland Airports Mittarfeqarfiit · CC BY 2.0 · view original

Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Qaanaaq Airport (NAQ). Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/NAQ

MLA

“Qaanaaq Airport (NAQ).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/NAQ. Accessed 24 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

Vuelopedia. “Qaanaaq Airport (NAQ).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 15, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/NAQ.

Harvard

Vuelopedia (2026) Qaanaaq Airport (NAQ). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/NAQ (Accessed: 24 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_naq,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Qaanaaq Airport (NAQ)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/NAQ},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/NAQ}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-24},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-24}
}

Wikipedia

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