McCall Municipal Airport

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McCall Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport in the western United States, located in McCall, Idaho. It is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility. McCall is home to a U.S. Forest Service smokejumper base, one of seven in the nation. The airport was the site of a fatal crash in 2008 on May 2, when two single-engine planes collided on final approach to runway 34 and exploded, resulting in three deaths.

Facilities and aircraft

McCall Municipal Airport covers an area of 197 acre at an elevation of 5024 ft above sea level. It has one runway, aligned north-south and designated 16/34, with an asphalt surface measuring 6108 by. The north end of the runway is about a mile (1.6 km) south of Payette Lake. For the 12-month period ending August 13, 2010, the airport had 43,600 aircraft operations, an average of 119 per day: 84% general aviation, 16% air taxi, and <1% military. At that time, there were 94 aircraft based at this airport: 82% single-engine, 14% multi-engine, 3% jet, and 1% helicopter.

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