Adirondack Regional Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Adirondack Regional Airport
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IATA = SLK
ICAO = KSLK
type = Public
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operator = Town of Harrietstown, New York
city-served = Harrietstown, Lake Placid, & Saranac Lake
location = Saranac Lake
elevation-f = 1,663
elevation-m = 507
coordinates = Coord|44|23|07|N|074|12|22|W|type:airport|display=inline
website = [http://www.saranaclake.com/airport/airportinfo.html www.saranaclake.com/airport]
r1-number = 5/23
r1-length-f = 6,573
r1-length-m = 2,003
r1-surface = Grooved asphalt
r2-number = 9/27
r2-length-f = 3,998
r2-length-m = 1,219
r2-surface = Asphalt
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Adirondack Regional Airport Airport codes|SLK|KSLK is a public airport in the north-central Adirondacks two miles (3 km) from Lake Clear, in Harrietstown, in Franklin County, New York, USA. It serves the villages of Saranac Lake and surrounding areas.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 2,597 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2004 and 2,682 enplanements in 2005. [ [http://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraffic/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/ FAA Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data: 2005] ] According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007-2011, Adirondack is classified as "commercial service - non-primary" because it has between 2,500 and 10,000 passenger boardings per year. [ [http://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraffic/airports/planning_capacity/npias/ FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems: 2007-2011] ]

Facilities

Adirondack Regional Airport covers convert|1499|acre|ha|0 and has two asphalt paved runways: 5/23 measuring 6,573 x 150 ft. (2,003 x 46 m) and 9/27 measuring 3,998 x 100 ft. (1,219 x 30 m).

In the 1960s, the Adirondack Airport had three runways. Runway 16/34 was convert|4000|ft|m long and convert|100|ft|m wide, but was abandoned sometime between the mid 1970s and early 1980s. The main runway was lengthened from approximately convert|5000|ft|m to its present length during the early 1970s or thereabouts and an instrument landing system and approach lighting system was installed on the southwest-facing runway 23. Also, a parallel taxiway was added to almost the full length of runway 9-27 and a partial parallel taxiway was added between the abandoned northwest-southeast runway - part of which was converted into a taxiway and the approach end of runway 23.

Airlines and Destinations

*Cape Air (Boston)

References

* [http://www.saranaclake.com/airport/ Adirondack Regional Airport]
*FAA-airport|ID=SLK|use=PU|own=PU|site=16097.*A

Notes

External links

*PDFlink| [https://www.nysdot.gov/portal/page/portal/divisions/operating/opdm/aviation/repository/air_dir/slk.pdf New York State DOT Airport Diagram]