Friday Harbor Airport Explained

Friday Harbor Airport
Iata:FRD
Icao:KFHR
Faa:FHR
Type:Public
Owner:Port of Friday Harbor
City-Served:Friday Harbor, Washington
Elevation-F:113

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Friday Harbor Airport is a public use airport located just southwest of the town center of Friday Harbor on San Juan Island in the U.S. state of Washington. It is owned by the Port of Friday Harbor.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Friday Harbor Airport is assigned FHR by the FAA and FRD by the IATA.[1]

It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2019–2023, in which it is categorized as a non-hub primary commercial service facility.[2]

Facilities and aircraft

Friday Harbor Airport covers an area of 145acres which contains one runway (16/34) with a 3,402 x 75 ft (1,037 x 23 m) asphalt pavement.

In 2016, the airport had 44,840 aircraft operations, an average of 123 per day: 72% general aviation and 29% air taxi. In May 2020, there were 151 aircraft based at this airport: 138 single-engine, 7 multi-engine, and 6 helicopter.

Airlines and destinations

Cargo

Statistics

Top destinations

Busiest domestic routes from ATW (March 2019 – February 2020)
RankAirportPassengersCarriers
1Seattle–Boeing, Washington6,580Kenmore
2Eastsound, Washington3,280Kenmore, San Juan
3Renton, Washington1,650

In popular culture

Friday Harbor is the default starting location in the flight simulator Microsoft Flight Simulator X.

See also

References

  1. http://gc.kls2.com/airport/FRD Great Circle Mapper: FRD / KFHR - Friday Harbor, Washington
  2. Web site: NPIAS Report 2019-2023 Appendix A . . May 30, 2020 . 106 . October 3, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181012054118/https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/reports/media/NPIAS-Report-2019-2023-Appendix-A.pdf . October 12, 2018 . live .

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