Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport

Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW/CYOW) is in Ottawa, CA, 114 m above sea level. It has 3 runways and the longest is 3,048 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
YOW · CYOW
City
Ottawa
Country
CA
Coordinates
45.3225, -75.6692
Elevation
114 m · 374 ft
Time zone
America/Toronto
Local time now
10:37
Airspace
Montreal
Departures observed
224 · 205 arrivals
Most seen destinations
YYZ, YTZ, YYC, EWR, IAD

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 (40)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
20:13BAW9ZYB78X · G-ZBLIYYZ
20:39ROU1933B38M · C-GEJNYYZ
20:51PTR2260DH8D · C-FLQYYTZ
21:04WJA632B38M · C-FQGGYYZ
21:06CJT1573B763 · C-FCAEYHM
21:09WJA619B738 · C-FKRFYYC
21:12FDX155B752 · N947FD—
21:15ROU1943B38M · C-FSIPYYZ
21:17POE299E295 · C-GZQCYYT
21:37PUL107PC12 · C-GRXNYSB
22:21PTR2499DH8D · C-GLQQ—
22:32POE168E295 · C-GKYIYYZ
22:35PTR2264DH8D · C-GLQDYOW
23:27JZA18E75S · C-FEJDYUL
23:55JZA111CRJ9 · C-GLJZYWG
01:55ACA817A333 · C-GOFVYYZ
02:17ROU1967B38M · C-FSIPYYZ
05:19ROU1913B38M · C-GEPFYYZ
06:13WJA611B737 · C-FWSYYYC
06:27UAL2822A319 · N835UAORD
06:29RPA3529E75L · N751YXEWR
07:01ACA346A321 · C-FGKPYVR
07:02ACA472A321 · C-FGKNYYZ
07:10WJA892B38M · C-FYXCYYZ
07:12AKT101B737 · C-FHNF—
07:22CFEMCLJ40 · C-FEMCYYZ
07:33CFEMTLJ40 · C-FEMTYYT
07:34PTR2210DH8D · C-GLQHYTZ
07:44CFC01CL60 · 144619YQT
08:06PVL7762DH8D · C-FPALYUL
08:13POE241E295 · C-GKXTYHZ
08:25CGUSMLJ45 · C-GUSM—
08:32PTR2445DH8D · C-GLQJYHM
08:40PTR2351DH8D · C-GKQHYQT
08:42POE269E295 · C-GZQCYYC
08:44POE154E295 · C-GKYVYYZ
08:46WJA613B737 · C-GWBTYYC
08:47POE447—CAP5
08:49NDL877PC12 · C-GICR—
08:52PVL7688DH8D · C-FPQICSU4

Landed (40)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
20:07POE326E295 · C-GKQO—
20:35PTR2346DH8D · C-GLQG12NK
20:57POE264——
20:58PTR2265DH8D · C-GLQDYTZ
21:23UAL2822A319 · N835UA7LL2
22:31JZA15E75S · C-FEJDYUL
22:49JZA11CRJ9 · C-GLJZYUL
22:51PTR2394DH8D · C-GLQHYTZ
22:53AKT118B733 · C-GZCN—
23:30PTR2264DH8D · C-GLQDYOW
23:32GJS4515CRJ7 · N513GJIAD
23:38RPA3618E170 · N787YXEWR
23:48PVL7691DH8D · C-FPALYHZ
00:32PTR9828DH8D · C-GKQHYUL
00:37POE310E295 · C-GKXTYYZ
00:41WJA608B737 · C-FWSYYYC
00:43ROU1943B38M · C-FSIPYYZ
00:47RPA3445E75L · N751YXIAD
00:56ACA346A321 · C-FGKPCA-0724
01:16ROU2049B38M · C-GEPFYYZ
01:36WJA892B38M · C-FYXCYYZ
01:37ACA1114A321 · C-FGKNYYZ
05:43WJA1027B737 · C-GWBTYYC
06:50CFEMTLJ40 · C-FEMTYYZ
07:22POE299E295 · C-GZQCYYT
07:41POE240E295 · C-GKQVYHZ
07:43FDX156B752 · N972FDMEM
07:45NDL877PC12 · C-GICRYHU
07:55CGUSMLJ45 · C-GUSMYYZ
08:15CJT482B752 · C-FLAJYHM
08:17PVL7685GL7T · C-GPFIYHZ
08:19POE362E295 · C-GKXWYYZ
09:02ROU1998B38M · C-GEKZYYZ
09:15GJS4398CRJ7 · N557GJEWR
09:19JZA7862DH8D · C-GJZYYTZ
09:24CGSEYC172 · C-GSEYYPQ
09:35ACA792A320 · C-FXCDYYZ
09:38CFSXRCL30 · C-FSXRCRC2
09:39CGKIVC560 · C-GKIVYWG
09:53JZA1CRJ9 · C-GJZSYUL

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 (3)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
14/323,048 m · 10,000 ftasphalt126° · 306°
07/252,438 m · 8,000 ftasphalt57° · 237°
04/221,006 m · 3,300 ftasphalt26° · 206°

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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