Skagit Regional Airport is a public
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located three miles (5 km) west of the
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of
BurlingtonBurlington is a city in Skagit County, Washington, United States. The population is 8,388 as recorded by the 2010 census. It is included in the Mount Vernon–Anacortes, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
and northwest of
Mount VernonMount Vernon is a city in Skagit County, Washington, United States. The population was 31,743 at the 2010 census. It is one of two principal cities of and included in the Mount Vernon-Anacortes, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is the county seat of Skagit County...
, both cities in
Skagit County, WashingtonSkagit County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. It is named after the Skagit Indian tribe. As of 2010, the population was 116,901. It is included in the Mount Vernon-Anacortes, Washington, Metropolitan Statistical Area...
,
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. The airport is owned by the Port of Skagit County. It is situated in the Bayview Industrial Park.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter
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for the
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and
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, Skagit Regional Airport is assigned
BVS by the FAA and
MVW by the IATA (which assigned
BVS to
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Facilities and aircraft
Skagit Regional Airport covers an area of 1835 acres (742.6 ha) which contains two
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paved
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s with pilot activated lights: 10/28 measuring: 5,477 x 100 ft (1,669 x 30 m) and 4/22: 3,000 x 60 ft (914 x 18 m).
For the 12-month period ending October 31, 2006, the airport had 58,100 aircraft operations, an average of 159 per day: 96%
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, 3%
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and <1% military. At that time there were 151 aircraft based at this airport: 91% single engine, 2% multi-engine, 7% jet aircraft and 1% ultralights.
In the 1980s, Harbor Airlines operated commercial passenger flights into and out of MVW to Seattle-Tacoma International and to Oak Harbor, WA, using
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aircraft.
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