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New Airport sign at the entrance to the
Corvallis Airport and Corvallis Industrial Park. |
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The Corvallis Municipal Airport is located approximately
5 miles south of the City's downtown on Airport Avenue, off Highway 99W, and
currently offers private and corporate aircraft services to the Corvallis community.
Originally an Army air base, the airport was returned to the City after World
War II. Numerous improvements over the years include utility systems, aircraft
T-hangar storage, lighting, navigational aids, and runway and taxiway improvements.
The airport has one fixed-base operator which provides fueling and aircraft
maintenance services in addition to aircraft rental, charter services and pilot
training classes.
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Collings Foundation B-17 Nine O Nines lands
at the Corvallis Municipal Airport for Airport Day 2005.
Photo by Andy Cripe |
Airport runways range in length from 3,345 feet to 5,900 feet and provide a variety of
approaches, including visual, instrument landing system (ILS), and very high frequency
omnidirectional radio/distance measuring equipment (VOR/DME). Navigational aids include
instrument landing system (ILS), medium intensity runway and approach lighting (MIRL and
MALSR) systems, precision approach path indicator (PAPI) and visual approach slope
indicator (VASI), runway end identifier lights (REILs), and an AWOS-3 system located on
the airfield. In addition, the airport is also equipped with a rotating beacon, lighted
wind cones, wind "T", and segmented circle.
Aircraft storage is accommodated by 42 paved tie-downs,
102 T-hangars, and other indoor areas to accommodate larger aircraft.
There were 154 aircraft based at the Corvallis Municipal Airport during 2005,
and an estimated 50,800 operations were transacted during the year. Fully self-funded,
the Airport derives its revenue from land and building rents, tie-down and T-hangar
rents, fuel sales, and sales of grass seed from airport acreage.
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