Beluga Airport

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Beluga Airport
IATA: BVU – ICAO: PABG – FAA: BLG
Summary
Airport type		Private
Owner		ARCO Alaska, Inc.
Serves		Beluga, Alaska
Elevation AMSL		130 ft / 40 m
Coordinates		61°10′20″N 151°02′38″W / 61.17222, -151.04389
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
18/36	5,000	1,524	Gravel
9/27	2,400	732	Gravel
Statistics (1993)
Aircraft operations			5,600
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Beluga Airport (IATA: BVU, ICAO: PABG, FAA LID: BLG) is a private-use airport located in Beluga, in the Kenai Peninsula Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is privately owned by ARCO Alaska, Inc.^[1]

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, this airport had 4,407 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2005 and 6,308 enplanements (all unscheduled) in 2006.^[2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Red Dog Airport is assigned BLG by the FAA and BVU by the IATA^[3] (which assigned BLG to Belaga Airport in Belaga, Sarawak, Malaysia^[4]).

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Beluga Airport has two gravel surfaced runways: 18/36 measuring 5,000 x 100 ft. (1,524 x 30 m) and 9/27 measuring 2,400 x 60 ft. (732 x 18 m). As per the most recent FAA records, for the 12-month period ending January 15, 1993, the airport had 5,600 aircraft operations, an average of 15 per day: 91% general aviation and 9% air taxi.