Astoria Regional Airport is a joint civil-military public

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in Warrenton, three miles southwest of Astoria, in

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. The airport is owned by the Port of Astoria and is the home of Coast Guard Air Station Astoria. The airport has no airline flights. Flights to

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were most recently provided by SeaPort Airlines from March 2008 until Spring of 2010. Until 1974-75 Astoria had flights on West Coast Airlines and its successors.

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records say the airport had 1,851 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 1,531 in 2009 and 3,482 in 2010. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a ''

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'' facility based on enplanements in 2008 (the ''commercial service'' category requires 2,500 per year) but it would be categorized as ''commercial service - non-primary'' based in enplanements in 2010.

Facilities

Astoria Regional Airport covers 870 acres (352 ha) at an

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of 15 feet (5 m). It has two

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s: 8/26 is 5,795 by 100 feet (1,766 x 30 m) and 14/32 is 4,996 by 100 feet (1,523 x 30 m). In 2010 the airport had 38,721 aircraft operations, average 106 per day: 60%

, 36% military, and 4%

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. 48 aircraft were then based at the airport: 79% single-engine, 6% multi-engine, 4%

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, 4%

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, and 6% military. The airport houses a United States Coast Guard station with service and controls for three

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helicopters and three motor life boat rescue stations located on the Oregon and Washington coasts.

References

External links

Warrenton-Astoria Regional Airport
at Port of Astoria website
Aerial image as of August 2000
from

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Facilities

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