Belfast Municipal Airport
Belfast Municipal Airport | |||||||||||
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IATA: none – ICAO: KBST – FAA LID: BST | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Owner | City of Belfast | ||||||||||
Serves | Belfast, Maine | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 198 ft / 60 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 44°24′34″N 069°00′43″W / 44.40944°N 69.01194°W | ||||||||||
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Belfast Municipal Airport (ICAO: KBST, FAA LID: BST) is a public use airport in Waldo County, Maine, United States. It is owned by the City of Belfast and is located one nautical mile (1.85 km) southwest of its central business district.[1]
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned BST by the FAA[1] but has no designation from the IATA[2] (which assigned BST to Bost Airport in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan[3]).
Facilities and aircraft
Belfast Municipal Airport covers an area of 320 acres (130 ha) at an elevation of 198 feet (60 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 15/33 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,000 by 100 feet (1,219 x 30 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending August 9, 2008, the airport had 10,000 aircraft operations, an average of 27 per day: 80% general aviation and 20% air taxi. At that time there were 26 aircraft based at this airport: 88% single-engine, 8% helicopter and 4% ultralight.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 FAA Airport Master Record for BST (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2009-07-02.
- ↑ "KBST - Belfast, Maine - Belfast Municipal Airport". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ↑ "BST / OABT - Bost Airport, Afghanistan". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
External links
- Aerial photo as of 9 May 1996 from USGS The National Map
- FAA Terminal Procedures for BST, effective November 10, 2016
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for BST
- AirNav airport information for BST
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for BST