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Alma Airport (CYTF) serves the town of Alma in Quebec's Lac-Saint-Jean region, offering a single hard-surfaced runway equipped with an ILS for instrument approaches. It is a modest regional field used mainly for general aviation and business traffic, lying within reach of the Bagotville military terminal area to the south.
Alma Airport is a small regional aerodrome serving the town of Alma in the Lac-Saint-Jean district of Quebec, Canada. It is operated by Développement Économique Alma Lac-Saint-Jean and appears on Quebec's list of certified airports, though it is not part of the National Airports System. For a visiting VFR pilot it offers a straightforward single-runway layout with an instrument approach, making it a useful stop in this part of the province.
Alma Airport lies at coordinates 48.5085 N, 71.6413 W at an elevation of 436 feet. It sits within the general area covered by the Bagotville terminal, which provides a VFR advisory service to aircraft operating in the vicinity on 121.2 MHz. Pilots transiting or arriving from the south should expect to be within range of Bagotville's terminal frequency before contacting Alma's own local service.
Alma has a single physical runway, 13/31, of hard surface construction measuring 4,981 feet in length. The runway is lit, and an ILS is provided for runway 13, giving instrument approach capability from that direction; runway 31 is a visual reciprocal with no published instrument approach.
Aerodrome traffic at Alma is handled on the Unicom/ATF frequency of 123 MHz. An aerodrome/dispatch frequency of 127.2 MHz is also listed for the field. Aircraft in the wider area can obtain a VFR advisory service from Bagotville terminal on 121.2 MHz. Runway 13 is served by an ILS for instrument arrivals.
Alma Airport is one of the certified airports listed for the province of Quebec, situated in the Lac-Saint-Jean community it serves. It is operated by Développement Économique Alma Lac-Saint-Jean, and Wikipedia's Quebec airport listing records it under the identifier CYTF with the operator historically noted as CIDAL.
The airport is managed by Développement Économique Alma Lac-Saint-Jean and is used for general aviation and light business traffic. Avgas fuel is available at the field. Published operating hours are limited to daytime weekday periods, and prior permission is required for operations outside these hours.
