Coeur d'Alene Airport

Coordinates: 47°46′28″N 116°49′10″W / 47.77444°N 116.81944°W / 47.77444; -116.81944

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 cdaairport.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
6/24 7,400 2,256 Asphalt
2/20 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 in the northwest United States, located in northern Idaho at Hayden in Kootenai County. It is nine miles (14 km) northwest of the central business district of Coeur d'Alene.[1][2]

The airport 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 multiple ace Col. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (1912–1988), a Medal of Honor recipient born in Coeur d'Alene.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Facilities and aircraft

Coeur d'Alene Airport covers an area of 1,140 acres (4.6 km2) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 6/24 measuring 7,400 ft × 100 ft (2,256 m × 30 m) and 2/20 measuring 5,400 ft × 75 ft (1,646 m × 23 m)[2][9]

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. 1 2 Coeur d'Alene Airport, official website
  2. 1 2 3 4 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.
  4. ↑ Terry Stephens (September 2007). "Marines Win Long Campaign to Name Idaho Airport for "Pappy" Boyington". Airport Journals. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
  5. ↑ Curless, Erica (June 19, 2007). "Persistent Boyington backers try again". Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington). p. B1.
  6. ↑ Curless, Erica (August 8, 2007). "CdA airport renamed for 'Pappy'". Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington). p. B3.
  7. ↑ Prager, Mike (September 23, 2007). "In proud landing, it's Pappy Boyington Field". Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington). p. B1.
  8. ↑ Hagengruber, James (October 6, 2007). "Marines proud of airport's name". Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington). p. B1.
  9. ↑ AIRNAV

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