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Fort Smith Airport is a public aerodrome serving the community of Fort Smith in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It offers a single hard-surfaced runway suitable for scheduled turboprop and general aviation traffic, and is one of the more significant regional gateways in the southern NWT.
Fort Smith Airport (ICAO: CYSM, IATA: YSM) lies near the town of Fort Smith in the Northwest Territories and is operated by the Government of the Northwest Territories. It is a certified aerodrome supporting scheduled passenger service as well as general aviation, and is of interest to simulator pilots as a representative northern Canadian gravel-and-asphalt regional strip with a single main paved runway.
The airport is located near Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, in the South Slave Region. A district heliport is situated southeast of the airfield. No further detail on controlled airspace boundaries or adjoining FIR structure is available from the sources used.
Fort Smith Airport has one physical runway, 12/30, oriented northwest-southeast. Runway 12 is 5,944 feet long and runway 30 is 5,945 feet long, both hard-surfaced and lit.
The airfield uses an Aerodrome Traffic Frequency (ATF) of 122.2 MHz for airport radio communications. A remote radio outlet to Yellowknife on 123.55 MHz is also available for advisory and flight information service. There is no ILS at the field.
Fort Smith Airport has long served as an aviation hub for the South Slave Region. In January 2024 the airport was the scene of a fatal accident when a British Aerospace Jetstream operated by Northwestern Air, on a charter flight to the Diavik Diamond Mine, crashed shortly after takeoff, killing six people and injuring one.
Air Tindi operates scheduled passenger services from Fort Smith Airport to Edmonton, Fort Chipewyan and Yellowknife. A district heliport is located southeast of the main airfield. No further detail on fuel availability, operating hours, or PPR requirements is available from the sources used.
