Wenatchee Airport

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Pangborn Memorial Airport
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Partenavia P.68C-TC at Wenatchee Airport, 2017
Characteristics
ICAO code KEAT
IATA code EAT
Coordinates

47 ° 23 '55 "  N , 120 ° 12' 20"  W Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '55 "  N , 120 ° 12' 20"  W.
Height above MSL 381 m (1250  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 6 miles east of Wenatchee
Basic data
opening 1941
operator Port of Chelan County and Port of Douglas County
surface 257 ha
Terminals 1
Passengers 99,323 (2011)
Flight
movements 		40,164 (2014)
Runways
12/30 1737 m × 46 m asphalt
07/25 1359 m × 23 m asphalt

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The Wenatchee Airport (proper noun Pangborn Memorial Airport , IATA : EAT, ICAO : KEAT) is an airport located in Douglas County in the US -Bundesstaat Washington east of the city East Wenatchee on the Columbia River .

The airport was named after the aviation pioneer Clyde Edward Pangborn (1895-1958), who was the first person to cross the Pacific in an airplane together with Hugh Harndon (1899-1950) as co-pilot . It was planned to fly from Misawa , Japan to Seattle in 1931 . However, due to heavy fog, the two ended up in East Wenatchee.

History of the airport

Flight operations at Pangborn Memorial Airport began in 1941, with Northwest Airlines providing the first scheduled connections in 1945.

The airport was originally operated by the city of Wenatchee , and from 1965 by the Port Authority of Chelan County . Since 1974 the Port Authority of Chelan County and the Port Authority of Douglas County have shared operations. A new terminal was inaugurated in 1995, and an instrument landing system has been in place since 2006.

Flight operations

Scheduled flights are available at Pangborn Memorial Airport through Horizon Air , a subsidiary of Alaska Airlines , to and from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport . From March 1st, 2012, the Portland airline SeaPort Airlines flew to Yakima (Washington) for a while .

The highest number of passengers was in 1997 with 112,000. In 2011, 99,323 passengers used the airport. The longer runway 12/30 is in good condition, the shorter runway 07/25 in very poor condition.

Incidents

  • On January 16, 1951, a Martin 2-0-2 ( aircraft registration number N93054 ) of Northwest Orient Airlines, as Northwest Airlines was now called, crashed on the way from Spokane Airport to Wenatchee near Reardan, Lincoln County after an emergency call from unexplained Cause off. All seven passengers and three crew members died.

Web links

Commons : Wenatchee Airport  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pangborn Memorial Airport December 2011 Numbers up 229 Percent . Article by Doris Stadler in the Manson Village Tribune on January 17, 2012
  2. ↑ Statistics on gcr1.com (English)
  3. ^ Priscilla Long: Pangborn, Clyde Edward (1894-1958). In: HistoryLink.org. Retrieved September 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ accident report Martin 202 N93054 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on May 15, 2017th