Pangborn Memorial Airport

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The Wenatchee Airport ( proper name Pangborn Memorial Airport, IATA: EAT, IACO: KEAT ) is an airport located in Douglas County in the U.S. state of Washington to the east of the city of East Wenatchee on the Columbia River.

The airport was named after the aviation pioneer Clyde Edward Pangborn (1895-1958) named the with an airplane crossed the Pacific became the first man. It was planned in 1931 to fly from Misawa Japan to Seattle. Due to heavy fog landed Clyde Pangborn in East Wenatchee.

History of the airport

Flight operations at Pangborn Memorial Airport in 1941 recorded the first line connections were by Northwest Airlines 1945. On January 16, 1951 Martin 2-0-2 Northwest Orient Airlines crashed on the way from Spokane airport to Pangborn Memorial Airport near of Reardan, Lincoln County of unknown causes from. All seven passengers and three crew members died.

The airport was operated originally by the city Wenatchee, starting in 1965 by the Port Authority of Chelan County. Since 1974, the Port Authority of Chelan County and the Port Authority of Douglas County's share of the operation. A new terminal was inaugurated in 1995, an instrument landing system has been around since 2006.

Flight operations

Scheduled flights are available on the Pangborn Memorial Airport by Horizon Air, a subsidiary of Alaska Airlines, and from the Seattle- Tacoma and since March 1, 2012 by Portlander airline SeaPort Airlines to Yakima (Washington).

The highest number of passengers in 1997 there were 112,000. 2011 there were 99 323 passengers used the airport. The longer runway 12/30 is in good, the shorter on 7/25 in very poor condition.