Coeur d'Alene Airport

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

SummaryAirport typePublicOwnerKootenai CountyServesCoeur d'Alene, IdahoLocationKootenai County, IdahoHub for

• Empire Airlines

Elevation AMSL2,320 ft / 707 mWebsitewww.kcgov.us/160/AirportMaps
FAA airport diagramRunways

Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
6/24	7,400	2,256	Asphalt
2/20	5,400	1,646	Asphalt

Statistics (2018)

Aircraft operations	123,052
Based aircraft	294

Coeur d'Alene Airport / Pappy Boyington Field (IATA: COE, ICAO: KCOE, FAA LID: COE) is a county-owned public-use airport, located in Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. It is located nine miles (14 km) northwest of the central business district of Coeur d'Alene^[1][2] and is surrounded by the city of Hayden on three sides.

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]}

History

Built as Coeur d'Alene Municipal Airport in 1942 by the Corps of Engineers, it was equipped with two 5,400 ft x 500 ft. runways, the asphalt paving of which began in July 1942. A taxiway was also constructed, 5,400 ft. x 150 ft., but only paved to a width of 50 ft. The $357,729 paving contract was let to Roy S. Bair, of Spokane, Washington. A contract for electrical lighting for the field went to H. C. Moss, of Wenatchee, Washington, in the amount of $15,198.^[9]

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][10]

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2018, the airport had 123,052 aircraft operations, an average of 337 per day: 77% general aviation, 22% air taxi, 1% military, and <1% airline. There were 294 aircraft based at this airport: 253 single-engine, 18 multi-engine, 12 jet, 5 helicopter, 4 ultralight and 2 glider.^[2]

See also

• List of airports in Idaho

References

External links

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