Swamp Smith Airport
34LA · De Ridder, Louisiana · Beauregard County · map
Swamp Smith Airport is a private airport, 5 miles south of De Ridder, Louisiana, 180 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 3,000 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 34LA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 180 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1981
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 3,000 × 50 ft | Grass |
- Runway 12: trees 75 ft high 100 ft from the end
- Runway 30: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Beauregard Regional (5 nm northwest), Leesville Airport (24 nm north), Allen Parish Airport (30 nm east), Chennault International (34 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Beauregard Regional (5 nm northwest), DE Quincy Industrial Airpark (22 nm southwest), Leesville Airport (24 nm north), Allen Parish Airport (30 nm east).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Louisiana · avgas.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in De Ridder from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list De Ridder, LA as the owner's town.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Accidents and incidents in Louisiana 1,272 since 1982 · 188 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Louisiana 72 landing places
- Louisiana 3,734 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/34LA.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 30, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.