Burley Municipal Airport is a municipal airport in Burley,

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. The airport was rededicated as Burley J R Jack Simplot Airport in October 2002, honoring J. R. "Jack" Simplot.

History

The Burley Municipal Airport was dedicated on July 4th, 1930. A stop on the Contract Air Mail Route 5 (CAM5) from

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to Pasco, the airport began its life servicing Air Mail aircraft. The first airline flights were

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landed at Burley until 1969.

Facilities

The airport covers and has two asphalt runways: 2/20 is 4,094 x 80 ft (1,248 x 24 m) and 6/24 is 4,067 x 75 ft (1,240 x 23 m). In the year ending February 10, 2005, the airport had 27,750 aircraft operations, average 76 per day: 98%

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and <1% military. 56 aircraft are based at this airport: 84% single-engine, 10% multi-engine, 4% jet and 2%

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Accidents and incidents

* On April 13, 2022, a

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crashed into the agglomerate stack of Gem State Processing food processing plant while on approach to the airport. The high temperature steam exhaust, also from the plant, may have contributed to the crash by not only visually obscuring the runway from the pilot, but also lowering the air density causing the aircraft to lose altitude. The pilot, who was the only occupant on board, was fatally injured.

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