YGLCYGL

La Grande Rivière Airport

La Grande Rivière, Canada · North America

North America America/Toronto

3direct destinations

1airlines

1runway

1,981 mLongest runway

La Grande Rivière Airport (IATA: YGL, ICAO: CYGL) is an airfield location about 30 km (19 mi) south southwest of Radisson, Quebec, Canada. It is used mostly to shuttle Hydro-Québec personnel between Radisson and the larger cities in Quebec, but it is also served by regular scheduled flights of Air Inuit. Passengers from Nunavik region flying south to Montreal go through security at this airport instead of their origin airport. The 4-storey airport terminal was built in 1973 and 1974, and was expanded in 1991 with a new terminal building and several service buildings. Its passenger traffic had a peak of 93,400 in 1977, falling to around 15,000 in 1981. During the mid- and late 1970s, Nordair operated scheduled passenger flights nonstop to Montreal Dorval Airport (now Trudeau International Airport) with Boeing 737-200 jetliners on a weekly basis. Air Creebec also served the airport until March 2012.

Location

53.625°N, 77.704°O · 195 m s. n. m. (639 ft)

General data

CountryCanada

CityLa Grande Rivière

IATA codeYGL

ICAO codeCYGL

Coordinates53.625°N, 77.704°O

Elevation195 m s. n. m. (639 ft)

Time zoneAmerica/Toronto

Runways1

Longest runway1,981 m

Direct destinations3

Runways · 1

13/31

Length1,981 m6,499 ft

Width46 m151 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

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

Radio frequencies · 3

Area control (center)

132.100MONTREAL CNTR

Flight information

122.300INFO · CTAF126.700QUEBEC RDO

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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 They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation.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 Inuit

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

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APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). La Grande Rivière Airport (YGL). Retrieved October 16, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/YGL

MLA

“La Grande Rivière Airport (YGL).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/YGL. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

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Harvard

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BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_ygl,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{La Grande Rivière Airport (YGL)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/YGL},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/YGL}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-16},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-16}
}

Wikipedia

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