Dunsmuir Municipal-Mott Airport is three miles north of Dunsmuir, in

Siskiyou County, California Siskiyou County (, ) is a county in the northernmost part of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,076. Its county seat is Yreka and its highest point is Mount Shasta. It falls within the Cascadia bioregion ...

. It was built as an auxiliary airfield on the San Francisco - Seattle airway.

Facilities

The airport covers at an

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of 3,258 feet (993 m). Its one

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, 14/32, is 2,700 by 60 ft (823 x 18 m) asphalt. In 2007 the airport had 500 aircraft operations, average 41 per month, all

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. 20 aircraft were then based at the airport, all single-engine.

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Mount Shasta Airports in Siskiyou County, California {{California-airport-stub