Cold Bay Airport

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Cold Bay Airport

IATA: CDB – ICAO: PACD – FAA: CDB
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		State of Alaska DOT&PF - Central Region
Location		Cold Bay, Alaska
Elevation AMSL		96 ft / 29 m
Coordinates		55°12′22″N 162°43′32″W / 55.20611, -162.72556
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
14/32	10,415	3,174	Asphalt
8/26	4,235	1,291	Asphalt
Statistics (2004)
Aircraft operations			3,794
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Cold Bay Airport (IATA: CDB, ICAO: PACD, FAA LID: CDB) is a public airport located in Cold Bay, a city in Aleutians East Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.^[1] It is owned by the state and is one of the main airports serving the Alaska Peninsula.

Cold Bay's main runway is the fifth-largest in Alaska and was built during World War II. Today, it is used by scheduled cargo flights (Alaska Central Express and Evergreen International Airlines), and is sometimes used as an emergency diversion airport for passenger flights across the Pacific Ocean.^[2]

CDB is also an alternate landing site for NASA Space Shuttles.

There is also a Nation Weather Service office (which sends up ballons twice a day) colocated with the Air Control Center. The NWS ranks Cold Bay as the cloudiest city in the United States.

Air taxi operators fly in and out of the airport daily.

1 Facilities and aircraft
2 Airline and destinations
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Cold Bay Airport has two asphalt paved runways: 14/32 measuring 10,415 x 150 ft. (3,174 x 46 m) and 8/26 measuring 4,235 x 150 ft. (1,291 x 46 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending October 8, 2004, the airport had 3,794 aircraft operations, an average of 10 per day: 53% air taxi, 34% general aviation, 9% scheduled commercial and 4% military.^[1]