- Bryce Canyon Airport
Infobox Airport
name = Bryce Canyon Airport
IATA = BCE
ICAO = KBCE
FAA = BCE
type = Public
owner = Garfield County
operator =
city-served = Bryce Canyon,Utah
location =
elevation-f = 7,590
elevation-m = 2,313
coordinates = coord|37|42|23|N|112|08|42|W|type:airport_region:US|display=inline
website =
r1-number = 3/21
r1-length-f = 7,395
r1-length-m = 2,254
r1-surface =Asphalt
stat-year = 2004
stat1-header = Aircraft operations
stat1-data = 3,132
footnotes = Source:Federal Aviation Administration FAA-airport|ID=BCE|use=PU|own=PU|site=25115.*A, effective 2007-07-05]Bryce Canyon Airport Airport codes|BCE|KBCE|BCE is a public
airport located four miles (6 km) north of Bryce Canyon, in Garfield County,Utah ,United States . It is owned by Garfield County.The airport is near
Bryce Canyon National Park and theGrand Staircase-Escalante National Monument . [ [http://www.brycecanyoncountry.com/county/airport.html Bryce Canyon Airport] ]Facilities and aircraft
Bryce Canyon Airport covers an area of 215
acre s (87 ha) which contains oneasphalt pavedrunway (3/21) measuring 7,395 x 75 ft (2,254 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2004, the airport had 3,132 aircraft operations: 57%general aviation , 26%air taxi and 17% scheduled commercial.Charter airlines and destinations
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Air Grand Canyon (Prescott, South Rim Grand Canyon)
*Air Vegas (Las Vegas)
*Eagle Canyon/Scenic Airlines (Las Vegas)
*Grand Canyon Airlines
*King Air (Henderson)
*Westwind (Deer Valley, Page, Phoenix)Incidents
United Airlines Flight 608 aDC-6 (NC37510) was on a flight fromLos Angeles toChicago when it crashed at 12:29 pm on October 24, 1947 about 1.5 miles southeast of Bryce Canyon Airport, Utah, killing all 5 crew members and 47 passengers on board.On October 6, 2000
American Airlines flight 2821 departedDenver International Airport bound forLos Angeles International Airport . As theMD-82 aircraft was cruising at convert|33000|ft|m|abbr=on, there was a report of smoke in the cockpit area and loss of cabin pressure. The airliner was immediately redirected to the Bryce Canyon airport in southwestern,Utah . The single runway airport only handles small prop planes daily, but was actually built to handle larger aircraft in case of emergency for the long stretch flights betweenDenver and Las Vegas. TheAmerican Airlines flight 2821 arrived safely at 8:45 A.M. All 75 on board survived.References
*WikiMapia|37.7064|-112.1451|12
External links
*US-airport-ga|BCE
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