Skypark Airport is a public use airport

Airport

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 located three nautical mile

Nautical mile

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s (6 km

Kilometre

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) southwest of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Bountiful

Bountiful, Utah

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, a city in Davis County

Davis County, Utah

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, Utah

Utah

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, United States

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. It is privately owned by Skypark Airport Assoc., LLC.

Facilities and aircraft

Skypark Airport covers an area of 35 acres (14.2 ha) at an elevation

Elevation

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 of 4,234 feet (1,291 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt

Asphalt

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 paved runway

Runway

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 designated 16/34 which measures 4,700 by 70 feet (1,433 x 21 m).

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2007, the airport had 75,912 aircraft operations, an average of 207 per day: 99.8% general aviation

General aviation

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 and 0.2% air taxi

Air taxi

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. At that time there were 225 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single-engine

Aircraft engine

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, 8% multi-engine and 5% helicopter

Helicopter

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