Tulita Airport guide

Tulita Airport (ICAO CZFN) serves Tulita, a hamlet of 396 people in the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories. The community sits where the Great Bear River meets the Mackenzie River. A winter road links it to Wrigley and the Mackenzie Highway, but it opens only in mid- to late winter. In summer, supplies arrive by barge, so the airport is the community's year-round connection to the outside.

The Government of the Northwest Territories operates the airport. It has a single gravel runway, 06/24, 1,199 m (3,935 ft) long, at an elevation of 100 m (329 ft). The airport is staffed Monday to Friday from 9 am to 5 pm, and it also opens for medical evacuation flights outside those hours.

Traffic is light. Statistics list 2,291 aircraft movements in 2010. North-Wright Airways flies to Norman Wells, Deline and Fort Good Hope, and most flights start in Norman Wells. Buffalo Airways carries cargo to and from Yellowknife.