Qualicum Beach Airport

Qualicum Beach Airport (XQU/CAT4) is in Qualicum Beach, CA, 58 m above sea level. It has 1 runway and the longest is 1,087 m. See the diagram, each runway's data and what you fly over from here.

The diagram

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Drawn to scale from the real coordinates of each runway end. Runways without coordinates are not drawn.

Data

Codes
XQU · CAT4
City
Qualicum Beach
Country
CA
Coordinates
49.3375, -124.3931
Elevation
58 m · 191 ft
Time zone
America/Vancouver
Local time now
07:26
Airspace
Vancouver
Departures observed
11 · 3 arrivals
Most seen destinations
YVR

Departures and arrivals we saw ourselves on adsb.lol traces over 2 day(s). A floor, not the total number of movements: where no receiver is nearby, nothing is seen.

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That day’s flights

What we saw take off and land on 2026-09-03, in local time here. This is not an arrivals board: it does not say what leaves today, it says what flew that day and only what the receivers managed to see.

Took off (8)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
07:12CGPAKPA31 · C-GPAKCAM9
09:41CFNETT206 · C-FNET—
09:55CGBCMK100 · C-GBCMCBK5
10:38N7317PC24 · N7317CAS4
13:411C172 · C-XYJ—
14:32CFIZFC172 · C-FIZF—
14:35CGPAKPA31 · C-GPAKYVR
14:58AHC1A169 · C-GSIVYGB

Landed (3)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
18:53CGPAKPA31 · C-GPAKYVR
09:19CGPAKPA31 · C-GPAKYVR
10:11N7317PC24 · N7317CBQ2

The callsign is what the aircraft transmits by radio. It usually matches the commercial flight number, but not always: sometimes it is the registration.

Showing the first 40 in each direction.

Runways (1)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
11/291,087 m · 3,565 ftasphalt127° · 307°

An asterisk marks a heading derived from the runway number rather than measured. The number is a magnetic heading and the measured one is true: the derived value carries the local magnetic declination, up to 20 degrees.

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And this on board

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