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List of airports in Alberta

Wikimedia list article

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ3247114 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of airports in Alberta. It includes all Nav Canada certified and registered water and land airports, aerodromes and heliports in the Canadian province of Alberta. Airport names in italics are part of the National Airports System.

List of airports and heliports

The list is sorted by the name of the community served; click the sort buttons in the table header to switch listing order.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “List of airports in Alberta” is wikimedia list article. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through List, airports and Alberta, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 68-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, airports and Alberta is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3247114. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of airports in Alberta” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.