Mount Washington Regional Airport Explained

Mount Washington Regional Airport
Iata:HIE
Icao:KHIE
Faa:HIE
Type:Public
Operator:Town of Whitefield
Location:Whitefield, New Hampshire
Elevation-F:1,074
Elevation-M:327.4
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Zoom:9
Mapframe-Wikidata:yes
R1-Number:10/28
R1-Length-F:4,001
R1-Length-M:1,220
R1-Surface:Asphalt

Mount Washington Regional Airport is a public airport located 3miles east of downtown Whitefield in Coos County, New Hampshire, USA. The Civil Air Patrol maintains a composite squadron at this location.

It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a local general aviation facility.[1]

The airport has a single, newly re-paved runway that is long, wide, at an average altitude of MSL, beneath the Yankee One Military Operations Area (MOA). It features pilot-controlled lighting. Traffic pattern altitude is MSL, and pilots must make right traffic for runway 28 unless winds require use of Runway 10 during landing. Scheduled runway improvements have been completed and accepted which include re-alignment and resurfacing of a lengthened runway from 3495to.

Local attractions include: Mountain View Grand Hotel, Mount Washington Hotel (including Bretton Woods Mountain Resort), Mount Washington Cog Railway, Santa's Village and Six Gun City theme parks (Jefferson). Other local towns include Franconia (and its Cannon Mountain Ski Area), Littleton, Bethlehem and Lancaster, where the Coos County Fair is held each summer. A regional view can be enjoyed from the lookout tower at historic Weeks State Park, located on Mount Prospect in Lancaster.

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  1. Web site: List of NPIAS Airports. FAA.gov. Federal Aviation Administration. 23 November 2016. PDF. 21 October 2016.