Red Lodge Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | City of Red Lodge & Carbon County | ||||||||||
| Serves | Red Lodge, Montana | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 5,763 ft / 1,757 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°11′10″N 109°15′28″W / 45.18611°N 109.25778°W | ||||||||||
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| Statistics (2005) | |||||||||||
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Red Lodge Airport (ICAO: KRED, FAA LID: RED) is a public use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northwest of the central business district of Red Lodge, a city in Carbon County, Montana, United States. It is owned by the City of Red Lodge and Carbon County.[1] According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, it is categorized as a general aviation airport.[2]
Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned RED by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA[3] (which assigned RED to Mifflin County Airport in Reedsville, Pennsylvania[4]).
Red Lodge Airport covers an area of 212 acres (86 ha) at an elevation of 5,763 feet (1,757 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 16/34 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,000 by 75 feet (1,219 x 23 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending September 20, 2005, the airport had 8,050 aircraft operations, an average of 22 per day: 97% general aviation, 3% air taxi, and <1% military. At that time there were 14 aircraft based at this airport: 86% single-engine and 14% multi-engine.[1]