Sky Harbor Airport & Seaplane Base[1] or Sky Harbor Airport[2][3] (ICAO: KDYT, FAA LID: DYT) is a public airport in Duluth, Minnesota, United States.[2] It is located near the Wisconsin border, between Superior Bay and Lake Superior.[4] The airport is six nautical miles (11 km) southeast of the central business district of Duluth, Minnesota, on Minnesota Point within its city limits.[2]
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | Duluth Airport Authority | ||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Duluth, Minnesota | ||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1939<ref="StarTrib2020"/> | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 610 ft / 186 m | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°43′19″N 092°02′36″W / 46.72194°N 92.04333°W | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.duluthairport.com/... | ||||||||||||||||||
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The airport is owned by the Duluth Airport Authority and has been operating for over 50 years. It is one of only four airports in Minnesota offering both a hard surface runway for airplanes and water landing areas for seaplanes.[3]
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Sky Harbor Airport is assigned DYT by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.[5]
Facilities and aircraft
editSky Harbor Airport covers an area of 70 acres (28 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway designated 14/32 which measures 2,600 by 75 feet (793 x 23 m). It also has two seaplane landing areas: 9W/27W is 5,000 by 1,500 feet (1,524 x 457 m) and 13W/31W is 10,000 by 2,000 feet (3,048 x 610 m).[2]
Protecting old-growth pine trees on the south east end of the runway prompted a $13.2 million project which realigned the runway by 5 degrees and changed the runway length to 2600 feet with no displaced thresholds.[6] The airport reopened with its newly resurfaced runway on June 12, 2020. The runway realignment created seven acres of new land for the southeast end of the runway along the edge of Park Point, in order to angle the runway into the bay rather than toward the forest.[7] The old Runway 32 had a displaced threshold 658 ft past the beginning of the hard surface, leaving 2,392 ft for landing.
For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2018, the airport had 13,900 aircraft operations, an average of 38 per day: 94% general aviation and 6% air taxi. In 2018, there were 24 aircraft based at this airport: 21 single-engine and 3 multi-engine.[2]
History
editSky Harbor Airport was founded in 1946 by Jack Brockway and William Neukom.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Sky Harbor Airport & Seaplane Base" (PDF). Airport Directory. Minnesota DOT. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 7, 2008. Retrieved August 8, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f FAA Airport Form 5010 for DYT PDF, effective July 2, 2009.
- ^ a b c Sky Harbor Airport, official site
- ^ Map of area around airport at MapQuest
- ^ Great Circle Mapper: KDYT - Duluth, Minnesota (Sky Harbor Airport)
- ^ "Airport Facility Dir. North Central" (PDF). faa.gov. September 10, 2020. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ Johnson, Brooks. "Sky Harbor airport's realigned runway reopens in Duluth". www.startribune.com. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
External links
edit- Aerial image as of June 1997 from USGS The National Map
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for DYT
- AirNav airport information for KDYT
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures