Flying in small · aerodrome
Deer Lake Airport (CYDF)
Identifier CYDF, IATA YDF, as tagged on OpenStreetMap (way/798633690).
Whether it is open today, in what condition, with fuel or lights, is the Canada Flight Supplement's and the NOTAMs' to say — never this page's. The flying guide links NAV CANADA's products; nothing here substitutes for the briefing.
As the map has it
- Kind
- Land aerodrome.
- Position
- 49.20932, -57.39303
- Longest mapped runway
- 2448 m, 07/25 — measured from the runway way (way/180061283) on 2026-09-06
- Surface tag
- asphalt
- Lighting tag
- not tagged
- Fuel tag
- not tagged
Tags are what a mapper last wrote, not a status. "Not tagged" is the common case on this island — a pilot who has landed here can fix it in five minutes on the open map, and this page changes at the next build.
Getting to it by road
This is one of the two doors. Every measured drive from its terminal is on its airport page →
Times are OSRM's over the open map on 2026-09-06, unverified by a drive of our own — unlike the measured routes on this site, which were.
Drive it with your own nav:Organic Maps →OsmAnd →Apple →Google →Waze →The first two run on OpenStreetMap and don't track you — the same map this site is built from.
Arriving without a car
Every distance and time on this page is a drive. If you are not renting, here is what Deer Lake Regional Airport lists at this door — operators and numbers, not fares: a tariff is theirs to change, so it is linked and not copied.
No rideshare here.
No rideshare service is named anywhere on the airport's ground-transportation page, which instead lists three taxi firms, a shuttle and seven charter operators. Read off the page on 2026-09-15.
Taxi
Star Taxi, which the airport calls its primary ground transportation provider, serving the whole region with wheelchair-accessible vans and accommodating service dogs. The airport advises contacting them 24 to 48 hours before you arrive, which is the single most useful sentence on that page.
Taxi
Deer Lake Taxi, listed as operating around the clock across the province with no pre-booking required.
Shuttle
Star Taxi runs a shuttle between Corner Brook and the airport, serving named hotels, with a private-car option. It must be booked ahead. The per-person and private fares are the airport's to publish.
Deer Lake Regional Airport, read 2026-09-15 — the authority on what operates at this kerb, and the only place a current fare or timetable should come from.
Nearest strips, as the crow flies
- 15 nm · 28 km · CCT5 South Brook Seaplane Base ~
- 50 nm · 93 km · — Springdale Airport
- 56 nm · 103 km · CDU4 Springdale/Davis Pond Seaplane Base ~
- 61 nm · 112 km · CYJT Stephenville Airport
- 77 nm · 143 km · CCP2 Exploits Valley Botwood Airport
Great-circle arithmetic from the mapped coordinates — a straight line, not a route, and not a promise either end is open. The full matrix is on the flying guide.
Flown, on the record
No pilot has sent a log that touches this strip. A GPS log from the panel or the tablet, both ends within 3 km of a mapped aerodrome, is the proof — how to send it.
Help build this page
- Tag it. Surface, length, lighting and fuel are OpenStreetMap tags on the runway and the aerodrome; most strips here carry none.
- Send the log of a leg flown into or out of it, and a photo of the approach or the apron under the licence sentence on the contribute page.
- Host a community mesh node. An open, volunteer-run, licence-free radio mesh across the island's strips exists the day the first strip hosts a node — the ask, and what a mesh is not. Beside, never instead of, VHF, the ELT and NAV CANADA's products; it does nothing for a flight.