Harry Stern Airport Explained

Harry Stern Airport
Iata:WAH
Icao:KBWP
Faa:BWP
Type:Public
Owner:Wahpeton Airport Authority
City-Served:Wahpeton, North Dakota
Elevation-F:968
Elevation-M:295
Coordinates:46.2442°N -96.6072°W
R1-Number:15/33
R1-Length-F:5,100
R1-Length-M:1,554
R1-Surface:Asphalt
R2-Number:3/21
R2-Length-F:3,254
R2-Length-M:992
R2-Surface:Turf
Stat-Year:2003
Stat1-Header:Aircraft operations
Stat1-Data:10,860
Stat2-Header:Based aircraft
Stat2-Data:66
Footnotes:Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Harry Stern Airport is a public use airport in Richland County, North Dakota, United States. 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.

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]).

Facilities and aircraft

Harry Stern Airport covers an area of 585acres 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.

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.

See also

References

  1. , effective 2009-07-02.
  2. http://gc.kls2.com/airport/WAH Great Circle Mapper: WAH / KBWP - Enterprise, Alabama (Enterprise Municipal Airport)
  3. http://aviation-safety.net/database/airport/airport.php?id=BWP Aviation Safety Network: BWP - Bewani Airport, Papua New Guinea

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