Window Rock Airport
Window Rock Airport Tségháhoodzáníidi chidí naatʼaʼí ńdinibįįhígi (Navajo) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | |||||||||||
| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Navajo Nation | ||||||||||
| Serves | Window Rock, Arizona | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 6,742 ft / 2,055 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°39′07″N 109°04′03″W / 35.65194°N 109.06750°W | ||||||||||
| Map | |||||||||||
  RQE  RQE | |||||||||||
 | |||||||||||
| Runways | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| Statistics (2022) | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
Window Rock Airport (ICAO: KRQE, FAA LID: RQE, formerly P34) is a public use airport located 1.15 miles (1.00 nmi; 1.85 km) south of the central business district of Window Rock, in Apache County, Arizona, United States. It is owned by the Navajo Nation.[1]
This is one of six airports owned by the Navajo Nation; the other five being Chinle Airport (E91), Kayenta Airport (0V7) and Tuba City Airport (T03) in Arizona, plus Crownpoint Airport (0E8) and Shiprock Airport (5V5) in New Mexico.[2]
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned RQE by the FAA,[1] but has no designation from the IATA.[3] Prior to December 1998, its FAA identifier was P34.[4]
Facilities and aircraft
[edit]Window Rock Airport covers an area of 88 acres (36 ha) at an elevation of 6,742 feet (2,055 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 3/21 with an asphalt surface measuring 7,000 by 75 feet (2,134 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending May 6, 2022, the airport had 750 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 62 per month.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d FAA Airport Form 5010 for RQE PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 5 October 2023.
- ^ "Navajo Nation, Air Transportation Department". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 2 March 2007.
- ^ "Window Rock, Arizona (ICAO: KRQE, FAA: RQE)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- ^ "Notice of airport identifier changes". AOPA Online. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
External links
[edit]- Window Rock Airport (RQE) at Arizona DOT airport directory
- Window Rock Airport at Navajo Air Transportation Department
- Aerial image as of 25 June 1997 from USGS The National Map
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for RQE
- AirNav airport information for KRQE
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures