McNary Field (Salem Municipal Airport) is in Marion County,

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, United States, two miles southeast of downtown Salem, which owns it. The airport is named for U.S. Senator

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. McNary Field has had scheduled airline flights, including service on

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that ended in October 2008. The

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for 2011–2015 categorized it as a ''primary commercial service'' facility based on enplanements in 2008 (more than 10,000 per year).

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records say the airport had 15,205 passenger boardings (enplanements) in

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2008, an increase from 12,979 in 2007. The

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- Army Aviation Support Facility (AASF) and charter flights also use the facilities. McNary Field is the home of the

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Airline service

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was the first airline at Salem, starting in 1941–42; their

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SFO-MFR-SLE-PDX and back ended in 1980. Passenger airlines left McNary Field in 1993. The city campaigned to bring passenger airlines back, and on June 7, 2007

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came to Salem with two

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flights a day to Salt Lake City that ended on October 9, 2008. Earlier,

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turboprops flew Salem to Portland and Seattle. In April 2011

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, an Oregon-based airline, began 11 weekly flights between

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, Salem and

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. The service was short-lived and three months later in July 2011 SeaPort Airlines ended service at Salem.

Facilities

McNary Field covers 751

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s (304 ha) at an

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of 214 feet (65 m). It has two

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runways: 13/31, long with an ILS, and runway (16/34). The airport has a control tower, a restaurant, a general aviation center including limited flight training, and a small terminal. The terminal building is about after an expansion in 2010 that added ticket counters and a baggage area, and enlarged the waiting area. The expanded facility is more than twice the size of the old terminal, and was designed by Mead & Hunt. In the year ending September 30, 2013 the airport had 33,611 aircraft operations, average 92 per day: 87%

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, 7% military, and 5%

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. 216 aircraft were then based at the airport: 71% single-engine, 10% multi-engine, 5% jet, 5%

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, 1% glider, and 9% military. McNary Field terminal

Cargo carriers

References

External links

* Salem Municipal Airport - McNary Field
CityOfSalem.net
or http://www.flysalem.org/ FlySalem.org]
www.FlySalem.com
unofficial website
Oregon Department of Aviation: AIMS data for KSLE

Aerial image as of July 2000
from

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Airline service

Facilities

Cargo carriers

See also

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