Murray Field is a county-owned public airport, located adjacent to Humboldt Bay within

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in Humboldt County. Most of its use is

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History

Murray Field was established in 1919 by pilot Dayton Murray, Senior, and was later named for him after the county acquired the field in the 1930s. The airport is built on filled land. In 1976, the airport had scheduled passenger airline service operated by Eureka Aero Industries, a commuter air carrier that operated

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twin prop aircraft.Feb. 1, 1976 Official Airline Guide (OAG), Eureka (EKA) flight schedules

Facilities and aircraft

Murray Field covers at above

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on reclaimed land east of Humboldt Bay. Its one runway, 11/29, is asphalt. Medium Intensity Runway Lights (MIRL) are the only airport lighting. Runways 11 and 29 have Visual Approach Slope Indicators (VASI) and a parallel taxi-way. The original runway 7-25 was shut down as substandard in 1997. It has a charter service, Northern Air, as well as a Civil Air Patrol office. There was once a restaurant but it has closed permanently. In 2007 the airport had 65,450 aircraft operations, average 179 per day: 99%

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and <1% military. In 2005 101 aircraft were based at the airport: 90 single-engine, 11 multi-engine.

Other local airports

* Arcata-Eureka Airport * Eureka Municipal Airport * Kneeland Airport

References

External links

* * {{US-airport-minor, EKA, EKA
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