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Fort Simpson Airport

ICAO CYFS61.7602°N 121.2370°W169 m / 555 ftMedium airport
On the map

Fort Simpson Airport (IATA: YFS, ICAO: CYFS) is a medium airport in Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, Canada. It has one runway, 1,829 m (6,000 ft) long, asphalt.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
14/32156° / 336° · LIT
LENGTH1,829 m6,000 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

2 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsCanadian North 2Air Tindi 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from YFS. From the Wikipedia article “Fort Simpson Airport” (revision of 25 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Longest runway1,829 m6,000 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,612of 29,823 · =1,310 North America · =87 CAElevation169 m555 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=26,115of 43,341 · =12,534 North America · #1,073 CARunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =2,582 North America · =233 CA
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

3 channels
CNTREDMONTON CNTR135.400
RCOYELLOWKNIFE RDO126.700
MFFT SIMPSON RDO122.200