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Red Devil Airport is a public use
airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial Aviation, air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surf ...
located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northwest of the
central business district A central business district (CBD) is the Commerce, commercial and business center of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides wit ...
of Red Devil, in Bethel Census Area of the
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of
Alaska Alaska ( ) is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside Hawaii. Alaska is also considered to be the north ...
.


Facilities

Red Devil Airport covers an area of at an
elevation The elevation of a geographic location (geography), ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational equipotenti ...
of 174 feet (53 m) above
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. It has one
runway In aviation, a runway is an elongated, rectangular surface designed for the landing and takeoff of an aircraft. Runways may be a human-made surface (often asphalt concrete, asphalt, concrete, or a mixture of both) or a natural surface (sod, ...
designated 10/28 with a
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surface measuring 4,801 by 75 feet (1,463 x 23 m).


Airlines and destinations


Accidents and incidents

* On 24 March 1971, Douglas C-47B N49319 of Vanderpool Flying Service was damaged beyond economic repair in a landing accident. The aircraft was on an executive flight from
Bethel Airport Bethel Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6  km) southwest of the central business district of Bethel, a city in the Bethel Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. As per Federal Aviation Admi ...
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See also

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List of airports in Alaska This is a list of airports in Alaska (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 ...


References


External links


FAA Alaska airport diagram
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Airports in the Bethel Census Area, Alaska {{Alaska-airport-stub