Sky Harbor Airport (Minnesota)

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Sky Harbor Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KDYT – FAA: DYT
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Duluth Airport Authority
Serves		Duluth, Minnesota
Elevation AMSL		610 ft / 186 m
Coordinates		46°43′19″N 092°02′36″W / 46.72194, -92.04333
Website		DuluthAirport.com/SkyHarbor.php
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
14/32	3,050	930	Asphalt
13W/31W	5,000	1,524	Water
9W/27W	10,000	3,048	Water
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			13,900
Source: FAA^[1] and airport website^[2]

Sky Harbor Airport (ICAO: KDYT, FAA LID: DYT) is a public airport located on Superior Bay, six nautical miles (11 km) southeast of the central business district of Duluth, a city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States.^[1] It is also known as Sky Harbor Airport & Seaplane Base.^[3]. The airport is owned by the Duluth Airport Authority and has been operating for over 50 years. It is one of only four airports in Minnesota offering both a hard surface runway for airplanes and water landing areas for seaplanes.^[2] It is located near the Wisconsin border, between Superior Bay and Lake Superior.^[4]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Sky Harbor Airport is assigned DYT by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[5]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Sky Harbor Airport covers an area of 70 acres (28 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway designated 14/32 and measuring 3,050 x 75 feet (930 x 23 m). It also has two seaplane landing areas: 9W/27W is 5,000 x 1,500 feet (1,524 x 457 m) and 13W/31W is 10,000 x 2,000 feet (3,048 x 610 m). For the 12-month period ending May 30, 2006, the airport had 13,900 aircraft operations, an average of 38 per day: 94% general aviation and 6% air taxi.^[1]