Baker Municipal Airport Explained

Baker Municipal Airport
Icao:KBHK
Faa:BHK
Type:Public
Owner:Baker City & Fallon County
City-Served:Baker, Montana
Elevation-F:2,975
Elevation-M:907
Coordinates:46.3478°N -104.2594°W
R1-Number:13/31
R1-Length-F:4,898
R1-Length-M:1,493
R1-Surface:Asphalt
Stat-Year:2010
Stat1-Header:Aircraft operations
Stat1-Data:7,050
Stat2-Header:Based aircraft
Stat2-Data:23
Footnotes:Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Baker Municipal Airport is a public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.15 mi, 1.85 km) southeast of the central business district of Baker, a city in Fallon County, Montana, United States. The airport is owned by Baker City and Fallon County. It is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[2]

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility is assigned BHK by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA[3] (which assigned BHK to Bukhara Airport in Bukhara, Uzbekistan[4]).

Facilities and aircraft

Baker Municipal Airport covers an area of 193acres at an elevation of 2,975 feet (907 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 13/31 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,898 by 75 feet (1,493 x 23 m).

For the 12-month period ending September 1, 2010, the airport had 7,050 aircraft operations, an average of 19 per day: 95% general aviation, 4% air taxi, and 1% military. At that time there were 23 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single-engine, 9% multi-engine and 4% helicopter.

References

  1. . Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 30 June 2011.
  2. http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/ National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems
  3. Web site: Baker Municipal Airport (FAA: BHK, ICAO: KBHK) . Great Circle Mapper . 8 July 2011.
  4. Web site: Bukhara Airport, Uzbekistan (IATA: BHK, ICAO: UTSB) . . 8 July 2011.

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