Adirondack Regional Airport

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Adirondack Regional Airport
IATA: SLK - ICAO: KSLK
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Town of Harrietstown
Serves		Saranac Lake, New York
Elevation AMSL		1,663 ft (506.9 m)
Coordinates		44°23′07″N, 74°12′22″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
5/23	6,573	2,003	Asphalt
9/27	3,998	1,219	Asphalt

Adirondack Regional Airport (IATA: SLK, ICAO: KSLK) is a public airport located four miles (6 km) from Harrietstown, a town in Franklin County, New York, USA. It serves the villages of Saranac Lake and Lake Placid and is the only commercial airport in Adirondack State Park.

The airport currently offers commercial flights on Beechcraft 1900s to Logan International Airport in Boston, with some flights making a stop at Clinton County Airport in Plattsburgh. Airline service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 2,597 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2004 and 2,682 enplanements in 2005.^[1] According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007-2011, Adirondack is classified as commercial service - non-primary because it has between 2,500 and 10,000 passenger boardings per year.^[2]

1 Airline and destinations
2 Former airlines
3 Facilities
4 References
- 4.1 Notes
5 External links

[edit] Airline and destinations

Continental Airlines
- Continental Connection operated by CommutAir (Albany, Boston, Plattsburgh)

[edit] Former airlines

Brockway Air (Plattsburgh, Albany)
Mohawk Airlines
Colonial Airlines (Albany, Burlington, Plattsburgh, Rutland)
Eastern Air Lines
CommutAir, operating as USAir Express with service to Pittsburgh, New York-LaGuardia, and several other regional destinations prior to Continental Airlines assuming Commutair contract as the Continental Connection.

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[edit] Facilities

Adirondack Regional Airport covers 1,499 acres and has two runways:

Runway 5/23: 6,573 x 150 ft. (2,003 x 46 m), Surface: Asphalt
Runway 9/27: 3,998 x 100 ft. (1,219 x 30 m), Surface: Asphalt

In the 1960's, the Adirondack Airport had three runways. Runway 16/34 was 4000 feet long and 100 feet wide, but was abandoned sometime between the mid 1970s and early 1980s. The main runway was lengthened from approximately 5000 feet to its present length during the early 1970s or thereabouts and an instrument landing system and approach lighting system was installed on the southwest-facing runway 23. Also, a parallel taxiway was added to almost the full length of runway 9-27 and a partial parallel taxiway was added between the abandoned northwest-southeast runway - part of which was converted into a taxiway and the approach end of runway 23.