Red Dog Airport

Airport in Red Dog Mine, Alaska

RDB

Location of airport in Alaska

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
3/21	6,312	1,924	Asphalt

Statistics (2006)

Enplanements	8,475

Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Red Dog Airport (IATA: RDB, ICAO: PADG, FAA LID: DGG) is a private-use airport located at Red Dog Mine, in the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is privately owned by the NANA (Northwest Arctic Native Association) Regional Corporation. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 2/20 which measures 6,312 x 100 ft. (1,924 x 30 m).^[1]

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, this airport had 7,968 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2005 and 8,475 enplanements (105 scheduled + 8,370 unscheduled) in 2006.^[2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Red Dog Airport is assigned DGG by the FAA and RDB by the IATA.^[3] The airport's ICAO identifier was changed from PARD to PADG.^[4]^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b FAA Airport Form 5010 for DGG PDF, effective 2007-10-25
^ FAA Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data: 2005 and 2006
^ Great Circle Mapper: RDB - Red Dog, Alaska
^ TAWS Airport Database comparison. Universal Avionics Systems Corporation. (2007-06-20)
^ FAA Location Identifiers (Order 7350.7Z): Alaskan ICAO Identifiers (Section 6G), published March 15, 2007

External links

Aviation Photos: Red Dog Airport (RDB) at Airliners.net
Resources for this airport:
- Airport information for DGG at AirNav
- Accident history for RDB at Aviation Safety Network
- Recent weather observations for PARD at NOAA/NWS
- Aeronautical chart and airport information for DGG at SkyVector