Heber City Municipal Airport , also known as Russ McDonald Field, is a city-owned, public-use airport located south of

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, in

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, United States, east of

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. The airport is untowered and was activated in November 1947. It is included in the

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for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a

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facility.

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Heber City Municipal Airport covers an area of at an elevation of . It has one runway designated 4/22 with an asphalt surface measuring 6,899 by 75 feet with a PCN rating of 32/F/B/X/T . Since 1986 the airport has received over $17 million in federal grant funds for development and improvements from the FAA's

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. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2008, the airport had 28,302 aircraft operations, an average of 77 per day: 94%

, 5%

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, and less than 1% military. At that time there were 96 aircraft based at this airport: 69% single-engine, 6% multi-engine, 6% jet, 3%

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, and 16% glider. The airport has been cited since 2016 by the

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as an airfield that has egregious prices and fees. AOPA has asked the city of Heber to increase business competition at the airport by allowing additional

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s at the airport. However, the Heber City Council voted to revert to 2016 airport minimum standards and suspend consideration of a new FBO and self-service fuel until completion of a new airport master plan.

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Aerial image as of July 1997
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