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The Essence of Tommy Kochon Airport
YCK
Location
Colville Lake · NT · Canada
Position
67.020°, -126.128° · 870 ft elev.
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Remote gateway serving the small Dene community of Colville Lake.
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Colville Lake, Canada
Tommy Kochon Airport is a small regional airport serving Colville Lake, a remote community in the Northwest Territories of Canada. The airport provides essential air access to this isolated Dene First Nation settlement, which is not connected to the territorial highway system.
The airport is named in honour of Tommy Kochon, a respected elder of the Colville Lake community. It operates primarily with small propeller aircraft suited to the short gravel runway and serves as a vital lifeline for residents, supplying goods, medical transport, and passenger connections to larger centres such as Norman Wells and Yellowknife.
Given the community's extremely small population and remote location above the Arctic Circle, the airport sees very limited scheduled traffic and is managed with basic facilities typical of fly-in-only northern Canadian communities.
Terminals
The airport has no formal terminal building in the conventional sense, with only basic facilities appropriate for a small remote community airport.
Getting to & from
As Colville Lake has no road access, the airport itself is the primary means of arriving and departing the community, with no formal ground transport infrastructure.
Airlines here
North-Wright Airways has historically provided scheduled and charter service connecting Colville Lake to other Northwest Territories communities.
Notable facts
- ›Colville Lake is one of the most remote fly-in communities in the Northwest Territories.
- ›The airport is named after Tommy Kochon, a respected local Dene elder.
- ›The runway is a gravel strip, limiting the size and type of aircraft that can operate there.
- ›The community sits above the Arctic Circle, leading to extreme seasonal weather conditions.
- ›Air transport is the only practical means of access for residents, as no all-season road connects the settlement.
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