Yampa Valley Regional Airport (IATA: HDN, ICAO: KHDN, FAA LID: HDN) is in Routt County, Colorado, two miles southeast of Hayden and about 25 miles (40 km) west of Steamboat Springs. Also known as Yampa Valley Regional Airport, it has the only scheduled passenger flights to northwest Colorado. It is also used by larger business jets that cannot use the smaller Steamboat Springs Airport (Bob Adams Field).
The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011-2015 called it a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year). Federal Aviation Administration records say it had 136,600 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 122,480 in 2009 and 110,044 in 2010.
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Facilities
Yampa Valley Airport covers 671 acres (272 ha) at an elevation of 6,606 feet (2,014 m). Its asphalt runway, 10/28, is 9,998 by 150 feet (3,047 by 46 m).
The Yampa Valley Airport recently completed Phase II of a project that expanded the terminal, apron and parking lots. The project will cost about $18 million. The airport has six gates that can handle Boeing 757s, Boeing 737s, Bombardier Dash 8 Q400s, Airbus A319s, Canadair CRJ 200s, CRJ 700s and Embraer 170s. Like other Colorado airports that serve ski resorts, there are no jetbridges, only open air airstairs. The private ramp can handle up to 30 private jets. In the winter months larger private jets such as the Boeing 737 cannot be parked due to lack of space and must depart after deplaning passengers.
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Airport procedures
The airport has no Air Traffic Control Tower. All aircraft are on a CTAF (123.0) and/or Unicom. All aircraft receive approach control services from the Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center. Gates and aircraft parking slots can be assigned via the airport operation radio communication channel. Jet A fuel is provided by the FBO (fixed-base operator), Galaxy Aviation. All aircraft departing runway 28 make a right or left turn to avoid the populated area of Hayden. Runway 10 has an Instrument Landing System (ILS). Snow and low ceilings during winter months cause some aircraft to divert to other airports including Denver International Airport.
Airport operations
In the year ending January 1, 2011 the airport had 9,677 aircraft operations, average 26 per day: 45% general aviation, 28% scheduled airline, 26% air taxi, and <1% military. Four aircraft were then based at this airport: three single-engine and one multi-engine.
The airport has two ARFF trucks in the operations garage that are run by full-time and seasonal firefighters. They operate ARFF index C from December to March, and ARFF index B from April to November. The ARFF trucks are staffed by firefighters when a scheduled flight is arriving or departing with more than 10 passengers. Local fire departments, like The North Routt Fire Protection District and the West Routt Fire Protection District, can respond to the airport if mutual aid is needed. Transportation can be provided by local taxi companies and the public bus.
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
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Top destinations
All seasonal flights during ski season begin in December and end in April. The only year-round scheduled flights are to Denver International Airport by SkyWest flying as United Express with CRJ-700s and by Republic Airlines, also United Express, with Bombardier Q400s. Mainline jets operated by the three major airlines during ski season include the Airbus A319 and A320 as well as the Boeing 737-800 and 757-200.
Historical airline service
Airlines that served the airport in the past with mainline jets included America West Airlines, Continental Airlines, Northwest Airlines and Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA). The first jet service was flown by American Airlines with Boeing 727-200s and by PSA with McDonnell Douglas MD-80s in the winter of 1986-87. America West operated seasonal Boeing 737-200 flights nonstop to Phoenix. Before merging with United, Continental operated seasonal Boeing 757-200, 767-200 and 737-700 nonstops to Newark on weekends. Northwest, which later merged with Delta, flew nonstop to Minneapolis/St. Paul. Pacific Southwest flew weekend nonstops to and from Los Angeles (LAX) and San Francisco (SFO) which were PSA's only scheduled flights ever to serve Colorado. During the early 2000s, Delta flew nonstop to Cincinnati during the winter but ended the service after the 2008-2009 season.
Before the commencement of jet service, Yampa Valley Airport was served by Frontier Airlines (1950-1986) operating Convair 580 turboprops with flights primarily to Denver. Frontier's flights first appeared in the Official Airline Guide (OAG) in November 1966 and it appears the airport opened earlier that year as it is not listed in the 1966 AOPA directory.
References
External links
- Yampa Valley Regional Airport [1]
- Yampa Valley Regional Airport (HDN) at Colorado DOT airport directory
- Atlantic Aviation [2], the fixed-base operator (FBO)
- Aerial image as of September 1999 from USGS The National Map
- FAA Terminal Procedures for HDN, effective January 4, 2018
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for HDN
- AirNav airport information for KHDN
- ASN accident history for HDN
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures
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