Pangborn Memorial Airport

Local business

One Pangborn Drive
98802-9233 East Wenatchee
United States

Phone: (509) 884-2494

Website: www.pangbornairport.com

Pangborn Memorial Airport

The Pangborn Memorial Airport is a public use airport located in Douglas County, Washington. It is located four nautical miles (7 km) east of the central business district of Wenatchee, a city in Chelan County. The airport is owned by the Ports of Chelan and Douglas Counties.

The airport is served by one commercial airline (Alaska Airlines) providing commuter service to Seattle-Tacoma International. As of September 28th, 2006, Pangborn Memorial began supporting ILS (Instrument Landing System) approaches, greatly improving the ability to support all-weather operations. The Airport also serves as a regional hub for charter and corporate flight activity as well as flight training and aircraft maintenance.

Pangborn Memorial Airport is named for Clyde Pangborn, who with Hugh Herndon in 1931 flew the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean. Taking off from Misawa, Aomori, Japan with an intended destination of Seattle, they instead landed in Wenatchee due to bad weather in Seattle. Since Wenatchee was in the area of Pangborn's hometown, he was familiar with the area and chose to divert there for this historic flight, longer and more dangerous than Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic in 1927.

The Pangborn Memorial Airport covers an area of 637 acres at an elevation of 1,249 feet (381 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: Runway 12/30 is 5,700 by 150 feet (1,737 x 46 m) and Runway 7/25 is 4,460 by 75 feet (1,359 x 23 m). Runway 12/30 has Medium Intensity Runway lights, Medium Intensity Taxiway lights, Precision Approach Path Indicators (PAPI) at both ends, a Category I Instrument Landing System for Runway 12, and Required Navigation Performance (RNP) satellite based approaches at both ends. At this time, Runway 7/25 is closed to operations.

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