TCF, you are correct, but there is no longer a CFB at Inuvik - it was closed in the 80s. However Inuvik Airport is used as a forward operating base for Hornets ( a mere 1058 nm from Cold Lake!).
Inuvik was a completely new town and airport, built in 1954 after the nearby community of Aklavik was devastated by floods.
It is interesting that apart from the big grey object in the winter photo, the photo could have been taken any time in the past 25 years or so - two Twin Otters and a King Air.
grizzled was put off by the trees in the background, but that area is down near the river level in the Mackenzie Delta and has a large number of trees, even though it is 68 degrees north. You can see from the aerial photo that there are not many trees on the tundra.
D120A's comment surprised me. I had always assumed that Inuvik was in the Northern Domestic Airspace where tracks and runway headings are True, but a quick check of the AIM (
RAC – 2.0 AIRSPACE – REQUIREMENTS AND PROCEDURES) shows that Inuvik is officially in Southern Domestic Airspace, and so he is right - the runway number painters will be called out quite frequently. The variation is currently changing by half a degree per year!
So as TCF said, Open House.