Aurora State Airport

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Aurora State Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KUAO – FAA: UAO
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Oregon Department of Aviation
Serves		Aurora, Oregon
Elevation AMSL		200 ft / 61 m
Coordinates		45°14′50″N 122°46′12″W / 45.24722, -122.77
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
17/35	5,004	1,525	Asphalt
Statistics (2000)
Aircraft operations			73,895
Based aircraft			432
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Boeing Vertol 234 C-FHFB (cn MJ005) During inspection at Columbia Helicopters Heliport adjacent to Aurora State Airport.

Aurora State Airport (ICAO: KUAO, FAA LID: UAO) is a public airport located one mile (2 km) northwest of the central business district of Aurora, a city in Marion County, Oregon, United States. It is owned by the Oregon Department of Aviation.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Aurora State Airport is assigned UAO by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[2]

Primarily a general aviation airport, Aurora has significant business aviation based at the field. In addition the airport serves as the home to two major aviation companies Van's Aircraft and Columbia Helicopters.

1 Facilities and aircraft
2 References
3 External links
4 See also

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Aurora State Airport covers an area of 144 acres (58 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (17/35) measuring 5,004 x 100 ft. (1,525 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2000, the airport had 73,895 aircraft operations, an average of 202 per day: 91% general aviation, 8% air taxi and <1% military. There are 432 aircraft based at this airport: 84% single engine, 7% multi-engine, 1% jet aircraft and 8% helicopters.^[1]

Three fixed base operators operate at the field: Aurora Aviation, Aurora Jet Center, and Willamette Aviation. Aurora Aviation and Willamette Aviation provide aircraft fuel services, flight instruction, aircraft rentals, and aircraft sales, while the Aurora Jet Center primarily provides aircraft refuelling services, hangars for coroprate aircraft, and an exectutive lounge for private and corporate jet operations.