Arlington Municipal Airport is a public airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 located one mile (2 km) northeast of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Arlington

Arlington, Oregon

Arlington is a city in Gilliam County, Oregon, United States. The account of how this city received its name varies: one tradition claims it was named after the lawyer Nathan Arlington Cornish; another tradition claims that the Southern inhabitants of this city had enough clout to rename the city...

, in Gilliam County

Gilliam County, Oregon

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 1,915 people, 819 households, and 543 families residing in the county. The population density was 2 people per square mile . There were 1,043 housing units at an average density of 1 per square mile...

, Oregon

Oregon

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, United States

United States

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. It is owned by the City of Arlington.

Facilities and aircraft

Arlington Municipal Airport covers an area of 80 acres (32.4 ha) which contains one runway

Runway

According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...

 (6/24) with a dirt

Soil

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 surface measuring 5,000 x 50 ft (1,524 x 15 m). For the 12-month period ending July 20, 2005, the airport had 1,010 aircraft operations: 99% general aviation

General aviation

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 and 1% air taxi

Air taxi

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.

Insitu

Insitu

Insitu, Inc. is an American company headquartered in Bingen, Washington that builds Unmanned aerial vehicles . On July 22, 2008, it was announced that Insitu would be acquired by long-time partner Boeing.-History:...

uses the airport as a testing location for one of their UAV's.