AviatDataStony Rapids Airport YSF / CYSF
Stony Rapids, Saskatchewan · Canada · Government of Saskatchewan - Ministry of Highways (Northern Operations)
Limited hoursJet A-1 · Avgas 100LL
ICAO / IATACYSF / YSF
OperatorGovernment of Saskatchewan - Ministry of Highways (Northern Operations)
Coordinates59.2503°N, 105.8410°W
Elevation801 ft · 244 m
Time zoneCT (UTC-6/-5 DST)
Passengers / yr—
CustomsNo
Border controlNo
SchengenNo
FuelJet A-1 · Avgas 100LL
Bonded—
AIP referenceCYSF — Canada Flight Supplement / NAV CANADA CFS
Operating hoursUnattended MF (Mandatory Frequency 122.1) aerodrome, not tower-controlled. Ministry of Highways attendant on split shifts approx. 1000-1800 local Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri (with midday break), 1030-1800 Wed, 1400-1530 Sun; outside published hours O/T available with 2 hrs prior notice (PPR). AWOS (128.75 MHz) operates 24h. No published curfew; daylight VFR gravel/TBS-strip operations typical for the far north.
TerminalsSingle small terminal building (Ministry of Highways-operated) with Rise Air ticket/cargo counter; no jet bridges or multiple gates.
Runways (1)
- 06/24 · 1,539 m / 5,049 ft · 30 m wide · Paved - TBS (thin bituminous/chip-seal surface over gravel base)
Airport contact
Stony Rapids Airport is the only year-round air link for the fly-in hamlet of Stony Rapids and the adjacent Black Lake Denesuline First Nation in Saskatchewan's far north, handling scheduled passenger service, freight, and medevacs. Rise Air (the First Nations-majority-owned successor to West Wind Aviation/Transwest Air) is the dominant scheduled carrier, linking YSF to Fond-du-Lac, Wollaston Lake, Uranium City, Prince Albert and Saskatoon; a maintenance base is also sited here. Official annual passenger totals are not publicly published for this airport (it falls below the size threshold in Statistics Canada's national air-traffic table); the best available proxy is aircraft movements, reported at 10,808 in 2010. Saskatchewan does not observe Daylight Saving Time and stays on CST (UTC-6) year-round, unlike the DST-observing form used in this record's standard timezone string convention.
Services
Available
On request / PPR
Seasonal / ageing
Unconfirmed / not listed
Ground handling
Available
Snowbird Aviation Services (Snowbird Petroleum)
Snowbird Aviation Services is the contracted ground handler at Stony Rapids, not Rise Air self-handling as earlier assumed: Rise Air's own careers page states Snowbird 'provides a full range of ground support across our facilities,' Snowbird's own site lists YSF as one of its four primary Northern Saskatchewan bases with check-in, marshalling, tow/pushback, and baggage handling, and Snowbird itself (not Rise Air) is the listed employer on Ground Services Attendant - YSF job postings.
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Aircraft fuel
Available · 2 providers
Snowbird Aviation Services (Snowbird Petroleum)
Trading locally as Snowbird Petroleum, Snowbird Aviation Services sells Jet A and 100LL at Stony Rapids; confirmed on both FlightAware and SkyVector FBO listings for CYSF, which independently match its contact number and list its unicom/advisory frequency as 129.45.
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Athabasca Fuel Service Ltd
Independent, locally based fuel seller at CYSF (Bannock St, Stony Rapids) offering self-service and full-service 100LL and Jet A, with Prist available; confirmed via FlightAware's CYSF FBO listing, which notes the operator is normally in a trailer near the fuel tanks or reachable via Scott's General Store when unattended. · Various - daylight hours
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De-icing
Seasonal
Snowbird Aviation Services (Snowbird Petroleum)
Snowbird Aviation Services provides de-icing and anti-icing service at its Stony Rapids base.
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Part-145 line maintenance
Unconfirmed
Rise Air
Secondary aggregated sources (Wikipedia and similar directories) describe Stony Rapids as one of Rise Air's maintenance bases alongside Saskatoon, Prince Albert, and La Ronge, but this could not be confirmed against a primary Rise Air source with station-level detail.
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Part-145 base maintenance
Not listed
Component shops & overhaul
Not listed
Flight catering
Not listed
Aircraft cleaning
Not listed
Ground support equipment
Not listed
Cargo handling
Available
Snowbird Aviation Services (Snowbird Petroleum)
Snowbird Aviation Services offers cargo acceptance and limited short-term warehousing at its Stony Rapids base, per its own base listing for YSF.
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Aviation security
Not listed
Passenger & crew transport
Not listed
Flight support
PPR
Saskatchewan Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure (Stony Rapids Airport operator)
The Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure operates the certified aerodrome and publishes fixed weekly hours of operation; service outside those published hours requires 2 hours' prior notice, consistent across the Ministry's own airport page and CFS-derived listings.
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Hotel & travel
Available
Al's Place
Privately owned motel a few minutes from Stony Rapids Airport with a licensed restaurant open daily for guests; commonly used for crew and passenger overnight stays in this remote fly-in community.
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