Coeur d'Alene Airport

Coeur d'Alene Airport
Pappy Boyington Field
IATA: COE – ICAO: KCOE – FAA LID: COE
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Kootenai County
Serves Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Location Hayden, Idaho
Elevation AMSL 2,320 ft / 707 m
Website www.cdaairport.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
5/23 7,400 2,256 Asphalt
1/19 5,400 1,646 Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations 123,048
Based aircraft 186
Sources: airport website[1] and FAA[2]

Coeur d'Alene Airport (IATA: COE, ICAO: KCOE, FAA LID: COE) is a county-owned public-use airport located in Hayden, a city in Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. The airport is nine miles (14 km) northwest of the central business district of Coeur d'Alene.[1][2] It was known as Coeur d'Alene Air Terminal until September 2007 when it was renamed Coeur d'Alene Airport / Pappy Boyington Field to honor World War II hero Col. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington who was born in Coeur d'Alene.[3][4]

Facilities and aircraft

Coeur d'Alene Airport covers an area of 1,140 acres (460 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 5/23 measuring 7,400 x 100 ft (2,256 x 30 m) and 1/19 measuring 5,400 x 75 ft (1,646 x 23 m).[2]

For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2007, the airport had 123,048 aircraft operations, an average of 337 per day: 77% general aviation, 22% air taxi and 1% military. There are 186 aircraft based at this airport: 81% single-engine, 8% multi-engine, 5% jet, 5% helicopter, 1% ultralight and <1% glider.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Coeur d'Alene Airport, official website
  2. ^ a b c d FAA Airport Master Record for COE (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-10-25
  3. ^ Tom Greene (2007-09-20). "Airport renaming to feature flyover". Coeur d'Alene Press. http://www.cdapress.com/articles/2007/09/20/news/news03.txt. 
  4. ^ Terry Stephens (Sep. 2007). "Marines Win Long Campaign to Name Idaho Airport for "Pappy" Boyington". Airport Journals. http://www.airportjournals.com/display.cfm/Dallas/0709005. 

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