Beluga Airport

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Beluga Airport
Summary
Airport typePrivate
Owner ConocoPhillips
Serves Beluga, Alaska
Elevation  AMSL 87 ft / 27 m
Coordinates 61°10′23″N151°02′43″W / 61.17306°N 151.04528°W / 61.17306; -151.04528
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BLG
Location of airport in Alaska
Beluga Airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
01/195,0021,525Gravel
09/272,505764Gravel
Statistics (1993)
Aircraft operations5,600

Beluga Airport( IATA : BVU, ICAO : PABG, FAA LID : BLG) is a private use airport in Beluga, in the Kenai Peninsula Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is privately owned by ConocoPhillips (formerly ARCO). [1]

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As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 2,541 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, [2] 2,410 enplanements in 2009, and 2,144 in 2010. [3]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned BLG by the FAA [1] and BVU by the IATA [4] (which assigned BLG to Belaga Airport in Belaga, Sarawak, Malaysia). [5] The airport's ICAO identifier is PABG. [6]

Facilities and aircraft

Beluga Airport resides at elevation of 87 feet (27 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways with gravel surfaces: 1/19 is 5,002 by 100 feet (1,525 x 30 m) and 9/27 is 2,505 by 60 feet (764 x 18 m). [1]

For the 12-month period ending January 15, 1993, the airport had 5,600 aircraft operations, an average of 15 per day: 91% general aviation and 9% air taxi. [1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 FAA Airport Form 5010 for BLG PDF . Federal Aviation Administration. effective May 31, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Calendar Year 2008 Enplanements" (PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. December 18, 2009.
  3. ↑ "Passenger Enplanements at all U.S. Airports" (PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Beluga Airport (ICAO: PABG, IATA: BVU, FAA: BLG)". Great Circle Mapper.
  5. ↑ "Belaga Airport, Malaysia (IATA: BLG, ICAO: WBGC)". Aviation Safety Network.
  6. ↑ "Beluga – BLG (PABG)". Federal Aviation Administration.


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