Sydney / J.A. Douglas McCurdy Airport
Sydney / J.A. Douglas McCurdy Airport
JA Douglas McCurdy Sydney Airport (IATA: YQY, ICAO: CYQY) is a regional airport located in Reserve Mines in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The airport serves the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM) and the surrounding areas of Cape Breton Island. McCurdy Sydney Airport has the distinction of being the oldest public airport in Nova Scotia, first licensed on August 3, 1929. The airport features two runways and one passenger terminal, along with several hangars and maintenance facilities. Nav Canada classifies Sydney as an airport of entry by and as such is staffed by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). CBSA officers at this airport can handle aircraft with no more than 44 passengers, or with staged offloading of up to 200 passengers.
Location
46.161°N, 60.050°O · 62 m s. n. m. (203 ft)
General data
Runways · 2
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 2
Area control (center)
Flight information
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 They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation.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.
History
On 6 May 2022 Brian Comer, MLA for Cape Breton East, on behalf of Economic Development Minister Susan Corkum-Greek announced a $6.3-million investment from the Province. Some of the funding – $1 million – was to be used to establish a new Air Access Fund, which the Sydney Airport Authority could use for incentives to airlines to establish new routes at the airport. The other $5.3 million was for infrastructure upgrades at the airport including repairs to the primary and secondary runways, upgrades to the main terminal and paving the main road to airport.
On 14 November 2023, Member of Parliament for Cape Breton—Canso, Mike Kelloway, on behalf of the Minister of Transport, Pablo Rodriguez, announced that the Government of Canada funding, through Transport Canada’s Airports Capital Assistance Program, is providing more than $7.4 million to rehabilitate Runway 06-24, including associated edge lights.
Airlines operating here · 2
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
Photo: Sydney Airport · CC0 · 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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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Sydney / J.A. Douglas McCurdy Airport (YQY). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/YQY
MLA
“Sydney / J.A. Douglas McCurdy Airport (YQY).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/YQY. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Sydney / J.A. Douglas McCurdy Airport (YQY).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 15, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/YQY.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Sydney / J.A. Douglas McCurdy Airport (YQY). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/YQY (Accessed: 23 October 2026).
BibTeX
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