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Kapuskasing Airport lies on the Trans-Canada Highway 11 corridor in northern Ontario, a few kilometres from the town it serves. Once a Transport Canada airport with scheduled commercial service, it is now municipally owned and operates chiefly as a cargo and freight base supporting communities on the James Bay coast.
Kapuskasing Airport serves the town of Kapuskasing in northern Ontario. Formerly operated by Transport Canada with scheduled passenger flights, it was decommissioned as a federal facility in 1997 and passed into municipal ownership. Today it functions mainly as a cargo hub, and for a visiting sim pilot it offers a long, well-lit hard runway in an otherwise remote and sparsely served part of the province, making it a useful stop or destination on a northern Ontario cross-country.
The airport sits on the Trans-Canada Highway 11, roughly 3 km from the Kapuskasing town centre, in northern Ontario. It lies within the London FIC's area of responsibility for flight information services in this part of the province.
Kapuskasing has two paved, lit hard-surface runways. The primary runway, 17/35, is 5,481 feet long and lit. The secondary runway, 10/28, is 3,727 feet long; it is not listed as lit. There is no ILS at the field.
Radio facilities at Kapuskasing comprise a remote communications outlet on 123.275 MHz, identified as London Radio, providing a link to the London Flight Information Centre, and a traffic frequency of 122.2 MHz for aerodrome traffic.
The Trans-Canada Highway 11, which runs alongside the airport only a few kilometres from the Kapuskasing town centre, is a useful landmark for pilots orienting themselves toward the field.
Kapuskasing Airport was originally built with a 5,500-foot asphalt runway, an administration building and a cargo terminal, and was operated by Transport Canada. It handled scheduled commercial air traffic through Bearskin Airlines, but as passenger demand fell below sustainable levels for the airline, the airport's role shifted. In 1997 Transport Canada decommissioned the airport as a federal facility and transferred ownership to the Corporation of the Town of Kapuskasing.
The airport is now municipally owned and, in the absence of government funding for the substantial cost of restoration and maintenance, relies on a partnership with North Star along with fuel sales to remain viable. It now operates primarily as a cargo airport, hauling freight from Kapuskasing to the James Bay coast communities of Attawapiskat, Fort Albany and Kashechewan, making it the airport closest to Ontario's North Coast for this purpose.
