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Eastport Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use
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located one nautical mile (1.85 km) west of the central business district of Eastport, a city in Washington County,
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. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter
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for the
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and IATA, this airport is assigned EPM by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA. On October 13, 2020, the airport announced in a ceremony that it had received a $5.2 million grant from the U.S.
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. The grant will be used to build a new runway and improve lighting and infrastructure. Expected completion date of the new runway is late 2021. The airport also announced that it will be applying for a federal small airport development grant and that it is in active discussions with
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for future non-stop service to
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Facilities and aircraft

Eastport Municipal Airport covers an area of at an
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of 45 feet (14 m) above
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. It has one
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designated 15/33 with an
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surface measuring 4,000 by 75 feet (1,219 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending August 13, 2008, the airport had 1,200
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aircraft operations, an average of 100 per month. At that time there were 5 aircraft based at this airport: 80% single-
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and 20%
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Aerial photo as of 15 May 1996
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