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Airport type
  
Public

Elevation AMSL
  
108 ft / 33 m

Elevation
  
33 m

Owner
  
State of Rhode Island

Code
  
BID

Phone
  
+1 401-466-5511

Block Island State Airport

Operator
  
Rhode Island Airport Corp.

Serves
  
Block Island, Rhode Island

Website
  
blockisland.stateairportri.com

Address
  
1 Center Rd, New Shoreham, RI 02807, USA

Similar
  
Block Island Southeas, Mohegan Bluffs, Block Island North Light, Fred Benson Town Be, Block Island National

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Block Island State Airport (IATA: BID, ICAO: KBID, FAA LID: BID) is a public use airport located on Block Island, in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. The airport is owned by the State of Rhode Island. It is primarily a general aviation airport, but there is also scheduled airline service to Westerly State Airport. The airport opened in 1950.

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As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 10,384 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 8,516 enplanements in 2009, and 9,821 in 2010. 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 non-hub primary commercial service facility.

Block Island State Airport is one of six active airports operated by the Rhode Island Airport Corporation, the other five being T.F. Green State Airport, Newport State Airport, North Central State Airport, Quonset State Airport and Westerly State Airport.

Landing on runway 28 in block island state airport kbid


Facilities and Aircraft

Block Island State Airport covers an area of 136 acres (55 ha) at an elevation of 108 feet (33 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 10/28 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,502 by 100 feet (763 x 30 m).

For the 12-month period ending August 30, 2010, the airport had 16,503 aircraft operations, an average of 45 per day: 61% general aviation, 38% air taxi, and <1% military. At that time there were 4 aircraft based at this airport: 75% single-engine and 25% multi-engine.

References

Block Island State Airport Wikipedia