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Slidell Airport is a city-owned general aviation field on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, some four nautical miles northwest of downtown Slidell, Louisiana. It offers a single hard-surfaced, lit runway aligned north-south and operates as an uncontrolled aerodrome under New Orleans Approach/Departure oversight, making it a straightforward VFR destination for visiting pilots.
Slidell Airport is a public, city-owned aerodrome serving the Slidell area of St Tammany Parish, Louisiana, on the northern shore of Lake Pontchartrain. It is a general aviation field with no scheduled airline service, historically supporting a substantial mix of single-engine, multi-engine, helicopter and jet traffic, and it is also home to the Louisiana office of the National Weather Service. For a simulator pilot, it offers an approachable single-runway layout close to the New Orleans metropolitan area, with straightforward radio procedures typical of a busy uncontrolled field.
The airport lies about four nautical miles northwest of the central business district of Slidell, Louisiana, within the New Orleans metropolitan area. Traffic in the vicinity is worked by New Orleans Approach/Departure, reflecting the field's position beneath or adjacent to the approach and departure corridors serving the wider New Orleans terminal airspace.
Slidell Airport has one physical runway, orientated 18/36, with a hard surface and runway lighting. The database records a length of 4,989 ft for the runway 36 end and 4,032 ft for the runway 18 end. Field elevation is 26 ft.
Pilots can expect to work New Orleans Approach/Departure on 133.15 MHz for arrivals and departures in the surrounding airspace. The field's automated weather is broadcast on ASOS 132.475 MHz, and a ground communications outlet is available on 135.075 MHz. On the airfield itself, traffic is coordinated on the CTAF/UNICOM frequency of 122.8 MHz. There is no ILS at Slidell.
Slidell operates as an uncontrolled airfield, so pilots should make position calls and coordinate with other traffic on the 122.8 MHz CTAF/UNICOM frequency when in the vicinity, joining and flying the circuit for runway 18 or 36 as indicated by the wind and any traffic already established.
Slidell Airport is owned by the City of Slidell and covers some 340 acres. The Louisiana office of the National Weather Service is based on the airport site. In the twelve-month period ending 15 April 2008 the airport recorded around 112,000 aircraft operations, averaging 306 per day, of which 96 percent were general aviation and 4 percent military; at that time 86 aircraft were based there, comprising 87 percent single-engine, 9 percent multi-engine, 2 percent helicopter and 1 percent jet types.
Slidell continues to function as a general aviation airport supporting a mix of single-engine, multi-engine, helicopter and jet operations, with facilities on the field including an FBO. It remains an uncontrolled field relying on CTAF/UNICOM procedures rather than a control tower.
