La Tabatière Airport guide

La Tabatière Airport (Transport Canada identifier CTU5) serves the fishing village of La Tabatière in the municipality of Gros-Mécatina, on the Lower North Shore of Quebec. It sits at an elevation of 31 metres (102 feet) above sea level, a few kilometres from the village on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

The airport has one gravel runway, 06/24, which is 500 metres (1,640 feet) long. The Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable du Québec operates it as a public airport.

No road links the Lower North Shore to the rest of Quebec, and Route 138 stops well to the west. A 10-kilometre paved road joins La Tabatière to Mutton Bay, the municipality's other village, but it is not ploughed in winter, when residents use snowmobiles. Apart from a weekly ferry, the airport is the main year-round connection, and Air Liaison flies from it to Chevery, Saint-Augustin and Tête-à-la-Baleine. The municipality had 356 residents at the 2021 census.