Bryce Canyon Airport

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Bryce Canyon Airport
IATA: BCE – ICAO: KBCE – FAA: BCE
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Garfield County
Serves		Bryce Canyon, Utah
Elevation AMSL		7,590 ft / 2,313 m
Coordinates		37°42′23″N 112°08′42″W / 37.70639, -112.145
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
3/21	7,395	2,254	Asphalt
Statistics (2004)
Aircraft operations			3,132
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Bryce Canyon Airport (IATA: BCE, ICAO: KBCE, FAA LID: BCE) is a public airport located four miles (6 km) north of Bryce Canyon, in Garfield County, Utah, United States. It is owned by Garfield County.^[1]

The airport is near Bryce Canyon National Park and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.^[2]

1 Facilities and aircraft
2 Charter airlines and destinations
3 Incidents
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Bryce Canyon Airport covers an area of 215 acres (87 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (3/21) measuring 7,395 x 75 ft. (2,254 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2004, the airport had 3,132 aircraft operations: 57% general aviation, 26% air taxi and 17% scheduled commercial.^[1]

[edit] Charter airlines and destinations

Air Grand Canyon (Prescott, South Rim Grand Canyon)
Air Vegas (Las Vegas)
Eagle Canyon/Scenic Airlines (Las Vegas)
Grand Canyon Airlines
King Air (Henderson)
Westwind (Deer Valley, Page, Phoenix)

[edit] Incidents

On October 6, 2000 American Airlines flight 2821 departed Denver International Airport bound for Los Angeles International Airport. As the MD-82 aircraft was cruising at 33,000 ft, there was a report of smoke in the cockpit area and loss of cabin pressure. The airliner was immediately redirected to the Bryce Canyon airport in southwestern, Utah. The single runway airport only handles small prop planes daily, but was actually built to handle larger aircraft in case of emergency for the long stretch flights between Denver and Las Vegas. The American Airlines flight 2821 arrived safely at 8:45 A.M. All 75 on board survived.