- Coeur d'Alene Airport
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Coordinates: 47°46′28″N 116°49′10″W / 47.77444°N 116.81944°W
Coeur d'Alene Airport
Pappy Boyington FieldIATA: 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 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
- ^ a b Coeur d'Alene Airport, official website
- ^ a b c d FAA Airport Master Record for COE (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-10-25
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
External links
- Coeur d'Alene Air Terminal at Idaho Transportation Department
- Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for KCOE
- ASN accident history for COE
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures for KCOE
Categories:- Airports in Idaho
- Buildings and structures in Kootenai County, Idaho
- Transportation in Kootenai County, Idaho
- Western United States airport stubs
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