Clinton County Airport

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Clinton County Airport
IATA: PLB - ICAO: KPLB - FAA: PLB
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Clinton County
Serves		Plattsburgh, New York
Elevation AMSL		371 ft (113.1 m)
Coordinates		44°41′15″N, 073°31′28″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
1/19	5,000	1,524	Asphalt
14/32	5,000	1,524	Asphalt

Clinton County Airport (IATA: PLB, ICAO: KPLB, FAA LID: PLB) is a public airport located three miles (5 km) west of the central business district (CBD) of Plattsburgh, a city in Clinton County, New York, USA. It serves Plattsburgh and the western side of Lake Champlain. This county-owned airport covers 990 acres and has two runways.

The airport currently offers commercial flights on Beechcraft 1900s to Logan International Airport in Boston, Burlington International Airport in Vermont, and Adirondack Regional Airport in Saranac Lake, New York. Airline service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 1,712 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2004 and 1,747 enplanements in 2005.^[1] According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007-2011, Clinton County is a general aviation airport because a commercial service classification requires at least 2,500 passenger boardings per year.^[2]

Clinton County hopes to transition to using Plattsburgh International Airport as the primary airport for the region once that airport's facilities are upgraded.^[3]

1 Airline and destinations
2 Facilities
3 References
- 3.1 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Airline and destinations

Continental Airlines
- Continental Connection operated by CommutAir (Boston, Burlington, Saranac Lake)

[edit] Facilities

The primary instrument runway is runway 1-19. An instrument landing system is installed on the north-facing runway 1. Runway 1 is also equipped with a medium intensity approach lighting system. A VOR is located on the field and provides a non-precision instrument approach to runway 19. Both runway 1-19 and runway 14-32 are 5000 feet in length and 100 feet wide. The landing threshold to runway 19 is displaced 635 feet for landing due to trees north of the airport. A third runway oriented east-west used to exist during the 1980s, but it was abandoned.