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Flin Flon Airport (CYFO) serves the mining city of Flin Flon in northern Manitoba from a site at Bakers Narrows, on the shores of Lake Athapapuskow, some eight nautical miles southeast of the town itself. It is a modest single-runway field, home to scheduled Calm Air service and to water-bomber tanker operations, making it an interesting stop for a VFR pilot exploring the Canadian Shield country.
Flin Flon Airport is a small, City of Flin Flon-owned aerodrome that sits apart from the community it serves, in the lakeside settlement of Bakers Narrows on Lake Athapapuskow. It combines scheduled airline service with general aviation and firefighting support, giving it a mixed character that will interest a visiting simulator pilot: one moment a Calm Air prop-jet may be on approach, the next a water bomber may be loading at the tanker base.
The airport lies about 8 nautical miles (15 km) southeast of the town of Flin Flon, Manitoba, in the community of Bakers Narrows on the shores of Lake Athapapuskow. It is a certified aerodrome operated by the City of Flin Flon.
Flin Flon has a single physical runway, 01/19, 5,000 feet long with a hard surface and runway lighting, oriented almost north-south. There is no ILS.
Traffic at Flin Flon is worked on a mandatory frequency basis through Winnipeg Radio, using 122 MHz for both air-to-ground advisory and the remote communications outlet (MF RCO 122 MHz, Winnipeg Radio).
The airport's setting on the shores of Lake Athapapuskow at Bakers Narrows is the principal visual landmark for pilots approaching from the town of Flin Flon, which lies some 8 nautical miles to the northwest.
Flin Flon Municipal Airport opened on 26 May 1962; pilot Steve Olench, with the mayor and federal cabinet minister Gordon Churchill as passengers, marked the occasion by taxiing a Cessna through a ceremonial ribbon. Aviation in the Flin Flon area has long extended beyond the land airport, with floatplanes also operating from Schist Lake near Channing. During the 2025 Canadian wildfires, which encircled the city of Flin Flon, the airport became essential to water-bomber operations and to the evacuation effort, with airport staff themselves evacuated at the height of the fires.
The airport is owned and operated by the City of Flin Flon and is served by Calm Air, which provides prop-jet service linking Flin Flon with The Pas and Winnipeg. Alongside scheduled and general aviation traffic, the field also functions as a tanker base for Manitoba's Ministry of Natural Resources water bombers, underlining its continuing importance for aerial firefighting in the region.
