Logan-Cache Airport is an airport in the
western
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in
Cache County,
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, located northwest of
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. It is owned under the Logan-Cache Airport Authority, formed by Inter-local Agreement between Cache County and Logan City in 1992. This organization is subsidized by the city and county, having no authority to tax or bond for additional funding. Revenues are derived from leases of land, buildings, fuel and maintenance fees. The airport was previously owned by Cache County and managed by county commissioners. It is the second busiest airport in Utah by number of aircraft operations, with 109,245 in 2024.
History & services
Western Airlines
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served Logan from 1946 until
West Coast Airlines
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replaced them in 1959; West Coast pulled out in 1964.
Key Airlines
Key Airlines was founded as Thunderbird Airlines in 1964 and then changed its name in 1969.
The airline took over Sun Valley Airlines in 1972 and became known as Sun Valley Key Airlines
for several years until reverting to the Key Airlines name. T ...
served the airport from
Salt Lake City
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from 1964 to 1976. In that year, Utah carrier
Transwestern Airlines had its company headquartered at the airport, with flights to their hub at Salt Lake City, until its acquisition by
Horizon Air
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in December 1983.
Currently, scheduled services come from
Ameriflight
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and
Gem Air under contract for
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, transporting from several nearby states. Frequent charter flights occur on behalf of Utah State University's
athletic teams and their opponents. Utah State also occupies several hangars on the north end of the airport access road for its fixed-wing and rotorcraft training programs, and operates the dispatch office in the main passenger terminal. The airport also hosts Leading Edge Aviation, which offers flight training, FBO services, and a pilot supply shop. There are also several independent CFIs based at the airport.
Facilities
The Logan-Cache Airport covers with two runways:
* 17/35: Asphalt
* 10/28: Asphalt
* Two non-operational control towers
This airport remains a Class G, uncontrolled airport, with Class E airspace beginning at 700 ft AGL.
Incidents & Accidents
*January 9, 2005: A
Grumman Gulfstream II
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operated by the Icon Health and Fitness, registered N74RQ, impacted a snow bank during a final approach after the pilot had failed to conduct a proper IFR operation, after arriving from
Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, in Kansas City, Missouri. The plane had 2 crew and 7 passengers. No one was killed or injured.
*February 2, 2013: A
Cessna 175 Skylark
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that had taken off from this airport had to make an emergency landing in a nearby field due to carburetor ice.
*July 18, 2016: a
Diamond DA40
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operated by
Utah State University
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, registered as N419FP, was destroyed in
Paradise
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during a training flight from the airport, with one fatality. The student pilot killed exceeded the critical angle of attack, and resulted in a
flat spin stall. This became the first fatal crash in the USU Aviation Program and the first plane crash in its history.
*June 24, 2022: A Cessna 152, registered N934JH and owned by USU, crashed near
Mendon, Utah
Mendon ( ) is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,339 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Logan, Utah-Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Mendon was settled in 1859. James G. Willie, leader of th ...
. Neither the student nor the instructor aboard survived.
See also
*
List of airports in Utah
This is a list of airports in Utah (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that we ...
References
External links
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Airports in Utah
Buildings and structures in Logan, Utah
Transportation in Cache County, Utah