Window Rock Airport is a public use airport located south of the

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of Window Rock, in

Apache County Apache County is in the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. Shaped in a long rectangle running north to south, as of the 2020 census, its population was 66,021. The county seat is St. Johns. Most of the county is occupied by part ...

, Arizona, United States. It is owned by the Navajo Nation. This is one of six airports owned by the Navajo Nation; the other five being

Chinle Airport Chinle Municipal Airport , also referred to as Chinle Airport, is a public-use airport located southwest of the central business district of Chinle, in Apache County, Arizona, United States. It is owned by the Navajo Nation. As per Federal Avi ...

(E91), Kayenta Airport (0V7) and Tuba City Airport (T03) in Arizona, plus

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(0E8) and Shiprock Airport (5V5) in New Mexico. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and

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, this airport is assigned RQE by the FAA, but has no designation from the IATA. Prior to December 1998, its FAA identifier was P34.

Facilities and aircraft

Window Rock Airport covers an area of 88

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s (36 ha) at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 2/20 with an asphalt surface measuring 7,000 by 75 feet (2,134 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending April 14, 2011, the airport had 5,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 13 per day.

References

External links

Window Rock Airport (RQE)
at Arizona DOT airport directory
Window Rock Airport
at Navajo Air Transportation Department
Aerial image as of 25 June 1997
from USGS '' The National Map'' {{authority control Airports in Apache County, Arizona Navajo Nation airports