Northern Aroostook Regional Airport

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Coordinates: 47°17′08″N 068°18′46″W / 47.28556, -68.31278

Northern Aroostook Regional Airport
IATA: WFK – ICAO: KFVE – FAA: FVE
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Northern Aroostook Regional Airport Authority
Serves		Frenchville, Maine
Elevation AMSL		988 ft / 301 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
14/32	4,601	1,402	Asphalt
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations			1,400
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Northern Aroostook Regional Airport (IATA: WFK, ICAO: KFVE, FAA LID: FVE) is a public airport located three miles (5 km) east of the central business district of Frenchville, a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. It is owned by the Northern Aroostook Regional Airport Authority.^[1]

The airport serves the Madawaska and Fort Kent regions and, to a lesser extent, parts of New Brunswick, Canada. It once had scheduled air service to Boston and Portland via Presque Isle on Aroostook Airways in the 1970s, and via Northeast Express Regional Airlines operating as Northwest Airlink in the 1980s and 1990s.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Northern Aroostook Regional Airport is assigned FVE by the FAA and WFK by the IATA.^[2]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Northern Aroostook Regional Airport covers an area of 533 acres (216 ha) which contains one runway designated 14/32 with a 4,601 x 75 ft. (1,402 x 23 m) asphalt surface. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 1,400 aircraft operations: 59% general aviation and 41% air taxi.^[1]