Fort Smith Regional (KFSM)

Fort Smith Regional sits at the Arkansas-Oklahoma edge with a 9,318-foot precision runway, a crossing secondary strip and a shared civil-military field. American's Dallas/Fort Worth service joins business aviation, GA and Arkansas Air National Guard activity.

You work Razorback Approach with the local-control position beneath you. American regional traffic uses the long 8/26 primary while business jets, piston GA and military-training movements complicate the sequence. East flow uses runway 8 and west flow runway 26; 2/20 remains available outside the normal flows. The current cycle carries seven generated approaches and no arrivals or departure procedures, so every IFR departure leaves on radar vectors.

This is the Busy tier: a compact radar position where airline, GA and military rhythms share two crossing runways without hub-scale volume.

Runway layout