Watertown International Airport
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| Watertown International Airport | |||
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| IATA: ART - ICAO: KART | |||
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | City of Watertown | ||
| Serves | Watertown, New York | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 325 ft (99.1 m) | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 7/25 | 5,000 | 1,524 | Asphalt |
| 10/28 | 5,000 | 1,524 | Asphalt |
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Watertown International Airport (IATA: ART, ICAO: KART) is a public airport located in the village of Dexter, five miles (8 km) west of the central business district (CBD) of Watertown, a city in Jefferson County, New York, USA. The airport covers 1,060 acres and has two runways. It is served by one commercial airline, with service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
The airport has scheduled passenger service to Pittsburgh International Airport, with stops at New York's Massena International Airport and Ogdensburg International Airport. It does not provide any scheduled international passenger flights, but is available as an international port of entry for private aircraft on two hours advance notice to customs from pilots.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 3,728 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2004 and 4,612 enplanements in 2005.[1] According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007-2011, Watertown is classified as commercial service - non-primary because it has between 2,500 and 10,000 passenger boardings per year.[2]
In January 2007, Big Sky Airlines announced that it would begin serving Watertown International Airport in the Spring, offering non-stop flights to Boston and Albany. [3]
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[edit] Airline and destinations
- US Airways
- US Airways Express operated by Air Midwest (Pittsburgh, Massena, Ogdensburg)
- Delta Air Lines
- Delta Connection operated by Big Sky Airlines (Albany, Boston)
[edit] References
- Watertown International Airport (City of Watertown)
- FAA Airport Master Record for ART (Form 5010 PDF)
[edit] Notes
- ^ FAA Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data: 2005
- ^ FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems: 2007-2011
- ^ WWNY-TV Article on Big Sky Airlines
[edit] External links
- Watertown Int'l Airport 1000 Islands Council
- Watertown Int'l Airport Official Website
- FAA Airport Diagram (PDF)
- New York State DOT Airport DiagramPDF
- Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for KART
- ASN Accident history for KART
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for KART
- Essential Air Service documents (Docket Number 2842) from the U.S. Department of Transportation:
