Airport type Public Elevation AMSL 610 ft / 186 m Elevation 186 m | Serves Duluth, Minnesota 14/32 3,050 Phone +1 218-733-0078 | |
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Owner Duluth Airport Authority Website www.duluthairport.com/... Address 5000 Minnesota Ave, Duluth, MN 55802, USA | ||
Sky Harbor Airport & Seaplane Base or Sky Harbor Airport (ICAO: KDYT, FAA LID: DYT) is a public airport in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. It is located near the Wisconsin border, between Superior Bay and Lake Superior. The airport is six nautical miles (11 km) southeast of the central business district of Duluth, Minnesota, on Minnesota Point within its city limits.
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The airport is owned by the Duluth Airport Authority and has been operating for over 50 years. It is one of only four airports in Minnesota offering both a hard surface runway for airplanes and water landing areas for seaplanes.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Sky Harbor Airport is assigned DYT by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.
Facilities and aircraft
Sky Harbor Airport covers an area of 70 acres (28 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway designated 14/32 which measures 3,050 by 75 feet (930 x 23 m). Runway 32 has a displaced threshold 658 ft past the beginning of the hard surface leaving 2,392 ft for landing. It also has two seaplane landing areas: 9W/27W is 5,000 by 1,500 feet (1,524 x 457 m) and 13W/31W is 10,000 by 2,000 feet (3,048 x 610 m).
For the 12-month period ending May 30, 2006, the airport had 13,900 aircraft operations, an average of 38 per day: 94% general aviation and 6% air taxi. In 2016, there were 26 aircraft based at this airport: 23 single-engine and 3 multi-engine.
History
Sky Harbor Airport was founded in 1946 by Jack Brockway and William Neukom.