Harry Stern Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Wahpeton Airport Authority | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Wahpeton, North Dakota | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 968 ft / 295 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°14′39″N 096°36′26″W / 46.24417°N 96.60722°W | ||||||||||||||
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Harry Stern Airport (IATA: WAH, ICAO: KBWP, FAA LID: BWP) is a public use airport in Richland County, North Dakota, United States.[1] It is located one nautical mile (1.85 km) south of the central business district of Wahpeton, North Dakota and owned by the Wahpeton Airport Authority.[1]
Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Enterprise Municipal Airport is assigned BWP by the FAA and WAH by the IATA[2] (which assigned BWP to Bewani, Papua New Guinea[3]).
Harry Stern Airport covers an area of 585 acres (237 ha) at an elevation of 968 feet (295 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 15/33 is 5,100 by 75 feet (1,554 x 23 m) with a concrete surface; 3/21 is 3,254 by 150 feet (992 x 46 m) with a turf surface.[1]
For the 12-month period ending December 3, 2003, the airport had 10,860 aircraft operations, an average of 29 per day: 92% general aviation and 7% air taxi and 1% military. At that time there were 66 aircraft based at this airport: 83% single-engine, 8% multi-engine, 1% helicopter and 8% military.[1]