Window Rock Airport | |
Icao: | KRQE |
Faa: | RQE |
Type: | Public |
Owner: | Navajo Nation |
City-Served: | Window Rock, Arizona |
Elevation-F: | 6,742 |
Elevation-M: | 2,055 |
Coordinates: | 35.6519°N -109.0675°W |
Pushpin Map: | USA Arizona#USA |
Pushpin Label: | RQE |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
R1-Number: | 3/21 |
R1-Length-F: | 7,000 |
R1-Length-M: | 2,134 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
Stat-Year: | 2022 |
Stat1-Header: | Aircraft operations (year ending 5/6/2022) |
Stat1-Data: | 750 |
Footnotes: | Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] |
Window Rock Airport is a public use airport located 1.15miles south of the central business district of Window Rock, in Apache County, Arizona, United States. It is owned by the Navajo Nation.
This is one of six airports owned by the Navajo Nation; the other five being Chinle Airport (E91), Kayenta Airport (0V7) and Tuba City Airport (T03) in Arizona, plus Crownpoint Airport (0E8) and Shiprock Airport (5V5) in New Mexico.[2]
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned RQE by the FAA, but has no designation from the IATA.[3] Prior to December 1998, its FAA identifier was P34.[4]
Window Rock Airport covers an area of 88 acres (36 ha) at an elevation of 6742feet above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 3/21 with an asphalt surface measuring 7,000 by 75 feet (2,134 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending May 6, 2022, the airport had 750 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 62 per month.