Alturas Municipal Airport

Alturas Municipal Airport (ICAO: KAAT, FAA LID: AAT formerly O00), is a city-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) west of the central business district of Alturas, a city in Modoc County, California, United States.[1] This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorizes it as a general aviation facility.[2]

Alturas Municipal Airport
FAA runway diagram
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCity of Alturas
ServesAlturas, California
Elevation AMSL4,378 ft / 1,334 m
Coordinates41°28′59″N 120°33′55″W
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
13/31 4,300 1,311 Asphalt
03/21 3,096 944 Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations31,500

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Alturas Municipal Airport is assigned AAT by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA[3] (which assigned AAT to Altay Airport in Altay, Xinjiang, China).[4]

Facilities and aircraft

Alturas Municipal Airport covers an area of 160 acres (65 ha) at an elevation of 4,378 feet (1,334 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 13/31 is 4,300 by 50 feet (1,311 x 15 m) and 3/21 is 3,096 by 60 feet (944 x 18 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2008, the airport had 31,500 aircraft operations, an average of 86 per day: 95% general aviation and 5% air taxi.[1]

References

  1. FAA Airport Form 5010 for AAT PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 11 Feb 2010.
  2. National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013: Appendix A: Part 1 (PDF, 1.33 MB) Archived 2011-08-06 at the Wayback Machine. Federal Aviation Administration. Updated 15 Oct 2008.
  3. "Alturas Municipal Airport (IATA: none, ICAO: KAAT, FAA: AAT)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 4 Mar 2010.
  4. "Altay Airport, China (IATA: AAT, ICAO: ZWAT)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 4 Mar 2010.
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