Beluga Airport

Beluga Airport
IATA: BVU – ICAO: PABG – FAA LID: 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°N 151.04389°W / 61.17222; -151.04389
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
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, this airport is assigned BLG by the FAA and BVU by the IATA^[3] (which assigned BLG to Belaga Airport in Belaga, Sarawak, Malaysia^[4]).

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.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} FAA Airport Master Record for BLG (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-10-25
2. ^ FAA Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data: 2005 and 2006
3. ^ Great Circle Mapper: BVU / PABG - Beluga, Alaska
4. ^ Great Circle Mapper: BLG / WBGC - Belaga, Sarawak, Malaysia

External links

• FAA Alaska airport diagram (GIF)
• Resources for this airport:
  • AirNav airport information for PABG
  • ASN accident history for BVU
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker for PABG
  • NOAA/NWS latest weather observations for PABG
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for BLG