Devils Lake Regional Airport is a public use

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located two

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s (4 km) west of the

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of Devils Lake, a city in Ramsey County, North Dakota, United States. It is owned by the Devils Lake Airport Authority and was formerly known as Devils Lake Municipal Airport. A new terminal recently opened for business at the airport. DVL is mostly used for

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but is also served by one commercial airline, with flights two times daily. Scheduled passenger service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. As per

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records, the airport had 3,216 passenger boardings (enplanements) in

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2008, 3,984 enplanements in 2009, and 5,242 in 2010. It is included in the

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for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a ''non-primary commercial service'' airport (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year).

Facilities and aircraft

Devils Lake Regional Airport covers an area of 730

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s (295 ha) at an

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of 1,456 feet (444 m) above

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. It has two

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s with

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surfaces: 13/31 is 6,400 by 100 feet (1,951 x 30 m) and 3/21 is 4,314 by 75 feet (1,315 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2021, the airport had 23,780 aircraft operations, an average of 65 per day: 83%

, 10%

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, 5% airline, and 2%

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. At that time there were 28 aircraft based at this airport: 24 single-

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3 multi-engine, and 1 jet.

Airline and destinations

The following

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offers scheduled passenger service: United Express uses CRJ200s operated by

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to Denver and Jamestown.

Statistics

References

Other sources

* Essential Air Service documents
Docket DOT-OST-1997-2785
from the

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: *
Order 2005-11-17 (November 22, 2005)
selecting Mesaba Aviation, Inc., d/b/a Mesaba Airlines, to provide essential air service with Saab 340 aircraft at Devils Lake and Jamestown, North Dakota, for two years for annual subsidy rates of $1,329,858 at Devils Lake and $1,351,677 at Jamestown ($2,681,535 annually for both points combined). *
Order 2007-8-16 (August 17, 2007)
re-selects Mesaba Aviation, Inc., d/b/a Mesaba Airlines, operating as Northwest AirLink, to provide essential air service with Saab 340 aircraft at Devils Lake and Jamestown, North Dakota, for the two-year period of October 1, 2007, through September 30, 2008, for annual subsidy rates of $1,331,664 at Devils Lake and $1,355,011 at Jamestown ($2,685,675 annually for both points combined). *
Order 2009-8-6 (August 11, 2009)
re-selecting Mesaba Aviation, Inc., d/b/a Delta Connection, to provide Essential Air Service (EAS) with Saab 340 aircraft at Devils Lake and Jamestown, North Dakota, for the two-year period of October 1, 2009, through September 30, 2011, for annual subsidy rates of $1,459,493 at Devils Lake and $1,963,220 at Jamestown ($3,422,713 annually for both points combined). *
Ninety Day Notice (July 15, 2011)
of Mesaba Aviation, Inc. and Pinnacle Airlines, Inc. of termination of service at Devils Lake, ND and Jamestown, ND. *
Order 2011-12-6 (December 14, 2011)
selecting Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. to provide Essential Air Service (EAS) at Devils Lake, North Dakota, for an annual subsidy of $2,797,467, effective with the start of service by Great Lakes. We anticipate that Great Lakes will start service on or about December 17, 2011. *
Order 2014-1-19 (January 30, 2014)
selecting SkyWest Airlines (SkyWest) to provide Essential Air Service (EAS) at Devils Lake, North Dakota, for $3,224,917 annually, and Jamestown, North Dakota, for $3,126,564 annually, with service set at eleven (11) nonstop or one-stop round trips per week at each community to Denver International Airport (DEN).

External links

Devils Lake Regional Airport
official website

page at North Dakota Aeronautics Commission website
Aerial image as of September 1997
from

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