Orcas Island Airport is a public airport

Airport

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 located one nautical mile

Nautical mile

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 (1.85 km) north of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Eastsound

Eastsound, Washington

Eastsound is an unincorporated community on Orcas Island in San Juan County, Washington, United States.Eastsound is the largest population center on Orcas Island, the second-most populated and physically largest of the San Juan Islands...

 on Orcas Island

Orcas Island

Orcas Island is the largest of the San Juan Islands, which are located in the northwestern corner of Washington state in San Juan County, Washington.-History:...

 in San Juan County, Washington, United States

United States

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.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier

Location identifier

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 for the FAA

Federal Aviation Administration

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 and IATA

International Air Transport Association

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, Orcas Island Airport is assigned ORS by the FAA and ESD by the IATA (which assigned ORS to Orpheus Island Resort Waterport in Queensland, Australia).

Facilities and aircraft

Orcas Island Airport covers an area of 64 acres (25.9 ha) which contains one asphalt

Asphalt

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 paved runway

Runway

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 (16/34) measuring 2,900 x 60 ft (884 x 18 m).

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 61,600 aircraft operations, an average of 168 per day: 69% general aviation

General aviation

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, 20% air taxi

Air taxi

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 and 11% scheduled commercial. There are 75 aircraft based at this airport: 96% single engine and 4% multi-engine.

Airlines and destinations

External links

• Orcas Island Airport at WSDOT Aviation