The Goldendale Municipal Airport or simply the Goldendale Airport is an important airport that serves the city of Goldendale in Washington, USA. The airport is fully modernized consisting of amenities like, dusk to daylight beacon and runway lighting system, 3 windsocks, and of tie down area measuring 600 feet. Further, the Goldendale Airport in Washington is also renovating the old air patrol building to build an information area for the pilots.
The other key features of the Goldendale Airport, Washington can be listed as follows:
The Goldendale Airport, Washington is a civil airport.
Goldendale Airport has been coded as S20 by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
The runway of the airport is paved and measures 3400 feet in length and 144,000 square feet in area.
There is no officially published instrument approach (known as Instrument Flight Rules or IFR) procedure at the airport, which implies that Goldendale Airport is not safe for flights to take-off from or land during inadequate light or bad weather.
By the year ended in May, 2007, Goldendale Airport had an average of 98 aircraft operations per day. 70 percent of these comprised flights of transient general aviation, 29 percent consisted of local general aviation while the remaining 1 percent comprises air taxis. The are 10 on-field aircrafts based at Goldendale Airport, Washington out of which, 8 consist of single engine airplanes, 1 multi-engine aircraft, and 1 air taxi.
Some of the airports that are located close to the Goldendale Airport and exchange regular flights between them. These airports along with their respective codes and distances (in nautical miles) from Airport of Goldendale are as follows:
- Columbia Gorge Regional/ Dalles Municipal Airport (KDLS) - 19
- Yakima Air Terminal/McAllister Field (KYKM) - 46
- Lexington Airport (9S9) - 53
- Hermiston Municipal Airport (KHRI) - 66
- Portland-Troutdale Airport (KTTD) - 67
In addition to this the Goldendale Airport is also served by a few hotels that lie within commutable from the former. 2 of such hotels are located in Goldendale and Wasco. In this way, the airport of Goldendale is one of the prime gateways to the city of Goldendale.
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