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
- Codes
- FAA 34LA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 180 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- 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 |
Aircraft registered in De Ridder from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list De Ridder, LA as the owner's town.
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 3,726 aircraft registered
These connections as data: /graph/airport/34LA.json · about the eFlight graph.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 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 5, 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.