Spreading over 800 acres of land, the William R. Fairchild International is the biggest airport on the Olympic Peninsula of USA. The airport is commonly known as Fairchild International Airport and is situated in Clallam County close to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which is 5 kilometers away from the north-western part of Port Angeles in Washington, USA.
The Fairchild International Airport, Port Angeles was developed between 1934 and 1948 by the joint efforts of the Works Progress Administration and the army and navy of USA. At that time, the airport was called Clallam County Municipal Landing Field. The key features of the Fairchild International Airport, Washington can be listed as follows:
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has coded Fairchild International Airport as KCLM, while the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has assigned the code of CLM to it.
The Fairchild International Airport is a public airport.
The two asphalt paved runways of the airport measure approximately 6300 and 3200 feet in length and are operated by an Instrument Landing System (ILS) that can handle aircrafts like Boeing 737.
The airport has an officially published instrument approach (known as Instrument Flight Rules or IFR) procedure. This suggests that the airport makes all the necessary arrangements and hence safe for flights to take-off from or land at the airport during inadequate light or bad weather.
By the end of February, 2005, the Fairchild International Airport had an average of 144 aircrafts operating in a single day. 48 percent of these comprised flights of local general aviation, 40 percent consisted of transient general aviation, 12 percent of air taxis, while military flights accounted for less than 1 percent.
Moreover, there are 85 aircrafts based at Fairchild International Airport, Washington out of which, 78 consist of single engines, 5 multi-engine airplanes, and 2 helicopters.
The passenger aircrafts from Kenmore Air (Seattle-Boeing Field) and charter flights from Rite Bros. Aviation are the most common in Fairchild International Airport.
The other airports that lie close to Fairchild International Airport in Port Angeles and the distances that separate them (in nautical miles) are:
- Port Angeles Coast Guard Air Station Airport (KNOW) - 4
- Friday Harbor Airport (KFHR) - 31
- Wes Lupien Airport (KOKH) - 34
- Whidbey Island Naval Air Station (KNUW) - 36
- Skagit Regional Airport (KBVS) - 48
Further there are several hotels that lie close to the Fairchild International Airport, of which, 6 lie in Port Angeles and 2 in Sequim.
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