Smallest airport you've ever flown into?
Aug 15, 2011, 9:45 pm
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Hmmm...for me, the smallest commercial airport I've flown into is probably a tie between Sheridan, Wyoming, USA (SHR) and Hubli, Karnataka, India (HBX).
Aug 17, 2011, 11:50 am
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I booked tickets to SBY to add another to my list. Just US prop service to PHL and CLT currently (though they used to fly to DCA and BWI in the mid-90s).
Sep 13, 2011, 2:40 pm
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I notched SBY last weekend and really enjoyed it. Less than a minute taxi time, easy walk off the Dash 8 and right into the terminal and then to the curb. I was surprised to see they charge $10 a day for parking, similar to what BWI charges. In my experience often the smallest of airports have free parking (FLG, MOD etc. do).
Sep 13, 2011, 3:58 pm
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Sep 14, 2011, 3:14 pm
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Kayseri or L'viv. They both felt similar in size, but Kayseri would probably have to be the smallest. The difference will be even greater once the new airport in L'viv is finished in time for the Euro-cup. I've seen the construction from a couple miles away and the new design looks pretty slick. Too bad that also means a larger influx of tourists.
Sep 14, 2011, 5:17 pm
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Back when I was working as a contractor on airport reconstruction projects in Alaska I went to some small ones.
Probably the smallest was out on Atka Island (IATA code AKB), way out in the western Aleutians (20 degrees farther west longitude than Honolulu). At the time the airport had a gravel runway about 3000 x 50 feet. There's a small maintenance shed but no other buildings. They have since expanded the runway so that medivac jets can land.
Atka Island has a population of about 90. There are lots of World War II relics there as the only WWII battles in North America occurred on these western Aleutian islands. There is a crashed B-24 Liberator from WWII that still sits on the island and was recently named part of a National Monument.
Probably the smallest was out on Atka Island (IATA code AKB), way out in the western Aleutians (20 degrees farther west longitude than Honolulu). At the time the airport had a gravel runway about 3000 x 50 feet. There's a small maintenance shed but no other buildings. They have since expanded the runway so that medivac jets can land.
Atka Island has a population of about 90. There are lots of World War II relics there as the only WWII battles in North America occurred on these western Aleutian islands. There is a crashed B-24 Liberator from WWII that still sits on the island and was recently named part of a National Monument.
Sep 14, 2011, 5:27 pm
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Been really giving this thought. And again, it's got to be St. Augustine for a "Commercial" flight. Any airport that has to convert a Hangar to accommodate commercial traffic because the terminal is only large enough to house small private traffic gets my vote. And yes, they used to throw the luggage under a tent in the parking lot.
Smallest PRIVATE airport with a paved runway? Penn Yan Airport in the Fingerlakes region of NY. Runway had to be 15 feet wide. You definitely did not want any cross-winds on landing.
We could get ridiculous and start talking about grass strips where I have landed, but I'll leave it at that.
Smallest PRIVATE airport with a paved runway? Penn Yan Airport in the Fingerlakes region of NY. Runway had to be 15 feet wide. You definitely did not want any cross-winds on landing.
We could get ridiculous and start talking about grass strips where I have landed, but I'll leave it at that.
Sep 14, 2011, 8:59 pm
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1B2 - katama airpark for me. (Right next to South Beach.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katama_Airpark
http://www.airnav.com/airport/1B2
Ok, maybe not regularly scheduled flights, but pretty small.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katama_Airpark
http://www.airnav.com/airport/1B2
Ok, maybe not regularly scheduled flights, but pretty small.
Smallest airports I've flown into on commercial flight would be either:
FRS - Flores Airport near Tikal in Guatemala
HYN - Huangyan airport in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China