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Fort Smith Airport

public airport near Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ3912580 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fort Smith Airport (IATA: YSM, ICAO: CYSM) is located near Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada. Runway 03/21 has no winter service.

The Fort Smith (District) Heliport is located southeast of the airport.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Accidents and incidents

On January 23, 2024, Northwestern Air Flight 738, a British Aerospace Jetstream operated by Northwestern Air as a charter flight to the Diavik Diamond Mine crashed shortly after takeoff, killing six people and injuring one.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Fort Smith Airport” as public airport near Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Fort, Smith and Airport can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as public airport near Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3912580. The first chronological checks are 2024.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Fort Smith Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Fort Smith Airport primary sources, Fort Smith Airport archive and Fort research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Fort Smith Airport”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Fort Smith Airport” 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.