Alturas Municipal Airport

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Alturas Municipal Airport
FAA runway diagram
IATA: none – ICAO: KAAT – FAA: AAT
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of Alturas
Serves		Alturas, California
Elevation AMSL		4,374 ft / 1,333 m
Coordinates		41°28′59″N 120°33′55″W / 41.48306, -120.56528
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
3/21	2,935	895	Asphalt
13/31	4,301	1,311	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			31,500
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Alturas Municipal Airport (ICAO: KAAT, FAA LID: AAT formerly O00), is a city-owned public-use airport located one mile (2 km) west of the central business district of Alturas, a city in Modoc County, California, United States.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Alturas Municipal Airport is assigned AAT by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA^[2] (which assigned AAT to Altay, Xinjiang, China^[3]).

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Alturas Municipal Airport covers 160 acres (65 ha) and has two asphalt paved runways: 3/21 measuring 2,935 x 60 ft. (895 x 18 m) and 13/31 measuring 4,301 x 50 ft. (1,311 x 15 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had 31,500 aircraft operations, an average of 86 per day: 95% general aviation and 5% air taxi.^[1]