Comox Valley International Airport / CFB Comox

Comox Valley International Airport / CFB Comox (YQQ/CYQQ) is in Comox, CA, 26 m above sea level. It has 2 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
YQQ · CYQQ
City
Comox
Country
CA
Coordinates
49.7108, -124.8870
Elevation
26 m · 84 ft
Time zone
America/Vancouver
Local time now
07:29
Airspace
Vancouver
Departures observed
17 · 10 arrivals
Most seen destinations
YVR, YXS, YYC

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 (12)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
17:46CRDO508C295 · 295508
19:17CGPCLB190 · C-GPCLCBQ9
19:46JZA324DH8D · C-GGMIYVR
06:53JZA318DH8D · C-GGMQYVR
09:05SNAK503C295 · 295503
09:23CFC4093C17 · 177704HNL
11:14WJA518B738 · C-GZWSYYC
11:30CFWZKB190 · C-FWZKYQQ
12:01JZA320DH8D · C-GJZHYVR
14:37CFWZKB190 · C-FWZKCAM9
15:02WJA772B737 · C-FIBW
15:33CFGGIPA31 · C-FGGIXBB

Landed (9)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
18:46CGPCLB190 · C-GPCLYVR
18:49JZA321DH8D · C-GGMICA-0724
22:10JZA323DH8D · C-GGMQCA-0724
09:41WJA100B738 · C-GZWSYYC
10:33CFWZKB190 · C-FWZKYXS
10:52JZA60DH8D · C-GJZHCA-0724
13:31CFGGIPA31 · C-FGGICYPK
13:56WJA773B737 · C-FIBWYEG
14:06CFWZKB190 · C-FWZKYQQ

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 (2)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
12/303,048 m · 10,000 ftasphalt or concrete135° · 315°
18/361,524 m · 5,000 ftasphalt203° · 23°

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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