Provincetown Airport
| Provincetown Airport | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | KPVC |
| IATA code | PVC |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 3 m (10 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 3 miles northwest of Provincetown |
| Street | US 6 / MA 6A |
| Basic data | |
| operator | National Park Service |
| surface | 125 ha |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Start-and runway | |
| 7/25 | 1067 m × 30 m asphalt |
The Provincetown Municipal Airport ( Provincetown Municipal Airport ) is an airport in the US state of Massachusetts in the town of Provincetown . It is mainly used for private air traffic and has only one scheduled connection .
Location and transport links
The airport is located on the grounds of Cape Cod National Seashore , 2 miles northwest of downtown Provincetown, in Barnstable County . In addition to the shuttle bus operated by the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority , arriving passengers also have access to a rental car service in the terminal building between spring and autumn .
history
The airport was built in the 1940s and expanded so that it could be flown to by large aircraft like the DC-3 . The runway was paved in 1948. In 1949, Provincetown-Boston Airlines began operating scheduled flights between Provincetown and Boston with the Cessna Bobcats . PBA was founded in 1985 by the low-cost airline People Express Airlines , but this airline ran into serious economic difficulties due to the takeover of Frontier Airlines in the same year and was therefore taken over by Continental Airlines in 1987 . In the course of the necessary restructuring, Continental canceled the Provincetown - Boston connection the following year. Cape Air took over this scheduled connection the following year and operates it up to six times a day with one of its 10-seater Cessna 402s . In the meantime, this airline also acts as a fixed base operator for Provincetown Municipal Airport. The terminal building was renovated in 1998, and the runway was renovated in 2003.
Specialty
The airfield is located in the middle of Cape Cod National Seashore and is leased to the airfield operator by the National Park Service. This makes Provincetown Municipal Airport one of only two airfields located on land that is managed by the National Park Service. The second airport is Jackson Hole Airport in the US state of Wyoming .
Web links
- Airnav: Provincetown Municipal Airport
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Airport information. Retrieved May 26, 2020 (English).
- ↑ 30 Years Ago: People Express Merged Into Continental Airlines. Airways Magazine, accessed May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ CCNS Provincelands. Retrieved May 30, 2020 (English).
