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Orcas Island Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

Location
  
Eastsound, Washington

16/34
  
2,900

Code
  
ESD

Phone
  
+1 360-376-5285

Owner
  
Port of Orcas

Elevation AMSL
  
31 ft / 9 m

2,900
  
884

Elevation
  
9.45 m

Orcas Island Airport

Address
  
147 Schoen Ln, Eastsound, WA 98245, USA

Profiles

Approach to orcas island airport kors


Orcas Island Airport (IATA: ESD, ICAO: KORS, FAA LID: ORS) is a public airport located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) north of the central business district of Eastsound on Orcas Island in San Juan County, Washington, United States.

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Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned ORS by the FAA but has been assigned ESD from the IATA.

ORS has been assigned to Orpheus Island Resort Waterport in Queensland, Australia.

Landing at orcas island airport


Facilities and aircraft

Orcas Island Airport covers an area of 64 acres (26 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (16/34) measuring 2,900 x 60 ft (884 x 18 m).

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 61,600 aircraft operations, an average of 168 per day: 69% general aviation, 20% air taxi and 11% scheduled commercial. There are 75 aircraft based at this airport: 96% single engine and 4% multi-engine.

References

Orcas Island Airport Wikipedia