Airport in Warrenton, Oregon
Astoria Regional Airport
(
IATA
:
AST
,
ICAO
:
KAST
,
FAA
LID
:
AST
) is a joint civil-military public
airport
in
Warrenton
, three miles southwest of
Astoria
, in
Clatsop County, Oregon
.
[1]
The airport is owned by the Port of Astoria
[1]
and is the home of
Coast Guard Air Station Astoria
.
The airport has no airline flights. Flights to
Portland International Airport
were most recently provided by
SeaPort Airlines
from March 2008
[2]
until Spring of 2010.
[3]
Until 1974-75 Astoria had flights on
West Coast Airlines
and its successors.
Federal Aviation Administration
records say the airport had 1,851 passenger boardings (enplanements) in
calendar year
2008,
[4]
1,531 in 2009 and 3,482 in 2010.
[5]
The
National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems
for 2011?2015
categorized
it as a
general aviation
facility based on enplanements in 2008 (the
commercial service
category requires 2,500 per year)
[6]
but it would be categorized as
commercial service - non-primary
based in enplanements in 2010.
Facilities
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Astoria Regional Airport covers 870
acres
(352
ha
) at an
elevation
of 15 feet (5 m). It has two
asphalt
runways
: 8/26 is 5,794 by 100 feet (1,766 x 30 m) and 14/32 is 4,467 by 100 feet (1,362 x 30 m).
[1]
In the year ending September 17, 2019 the airport had 38,721 aircraft operations, average 106 per day: 59%
general aviation
, 36% military, and 4%
air taxi
. 36 aircraft were then based at the airport: 26 single-engine, 5 multi-engine, 2
helicopter
, and 3 military.
[1]
The airport houses a United States Coast Guard station with service and controls for three
HH-60
helicopters and three motor life boat rescue stations located on the Oregon and Washington coasts.
[7]
See also
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References
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- ^
a
b
c
d
e
FAA Airport Form 5010 for AST
PDF
. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective August 14, 2023.
- ^
"SeaPort Airlines Now Operating Oregon Coast Air Service"
(PDF)
.
Press Release
. SeaPort Airlines. March 16, 2009. Archived from
the original
(
PDF
)
on June 2, 2010
. Retrieved
March 29,
2012
.
- ^
"North Coast commercial air service questionable"
.
Seaside Signal
. December 27, 2011. Archived from
the original
on February 2, 2013
. Retrieved
March 29,
2012
.
- ^
"Enplanements for CY 2008"
(PDF, 1.0 MB)
.
CY 2008 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data
. Federal Aviation Administration. December 18, 2009.
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"Enplanements for CY 2010"
(PDF, 189 KB)
.
CY 2010 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data
. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2011.
- ^
"2011?2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A"
(PDF)
.
National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems
. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010. Archived from
the original
(
PDF
, 2.03 MB)
on September 27, 2012.
- ^
"General Airport Information"
.
Port of Astoria official website
. Port of Astoria
. Retrieved
2016-12-24
.
External links
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