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{{Infobox airport
| name         = Eastern Slope Regional Airport
| image        = 
| IATA         = FRY
| ICAO         = KIZG
| FAA          = IZG
| type         = Public
| owner        = Fryeburg, Maine
| operator     = Eastern Slope Airport Authority
| city-served  = [[Fryeburg, Maine]]
| location     = 
| elevation-f  = 454
| elevation-m  = 138
| website      = [http://www.easternslopeairport.com/ EasternSlopeAirport.com]
| r1-number    = 14/32
| r1-length-f  = 4,200
| r1-length-m  = 1,280
| r1-surface   = [[Asphalt concrete|Asphalt]]
| stat-year    = 2021
| stat1-header = Aircraft operations (year ending 8/16/2021)
| stat1-data   = 7,850
| footnotes    = Source: [[Federal Aviation Administration]]<ref name=FAA>{{FAA-airport|ID=IZG|use=PU|own=PU|site=07980.1*A}}, effective 2023-07-13</ref>
}}

'''Eastern Slope Regional Airport''' {{airport codes|FRY|KIZG|IZG}}, also known as '''Fryeburg Airport''', is a public [[airport]] located {{convert|3|mi|km|spell=in}} southeast of the [[central business district]] of [[Fryeburg, Maine|Fryeburg]], a town in [[Oxford County, Maine|Oxford County]], [[Maine]], [[United States]]. It is owned by the Town of Fryeburg.<ref name=FAA /> The airport is accessible from ME-5 in Fryeburg and [[Brownfield, Maine]]. It is very close to [[Conway, New Hampshire]].

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter [[location identifier]] for the [[Federal Aviation Administration|FAA]] and [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]], Eastern Slope Regional Airport is assigned '''IZG''' by the FAA and '''FRY''' by the IATA.<ref>[http://gc.kls2.com/airport/FRY Great Circle Mapper: FRY / KIZG - Fryeburg, Maine (Eastern Slope Regional Airport)]</ref>

==History==
The airport was built to replace [[White Mountain Airport (New Hampshire)|White Mountain Airport]] in [[North Conway, New Hampshire|North Conway]], which closed in 1988<ref>[https://www.airfieldsfreeman.com/NH/Airfields_NH.htm#whitemountain] [[Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields]]: White Mountain Airport (CWN), North Conway, New Hampshire</ref> and was replaced by [[Settlers Green]] [[outlet shopping|outlet shopping center]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Prevost|first=Lisa|date=November 27, 1988|access-date=April 14, 2022|title=NORTHEAST NOTEBOOK; North Conway, N.H.: A New Resort Within a Resort|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/27/realestate/northeast-notebook-north-conway-nh-a-new-resort-within-a-resort.html |website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

Until 2004, the airport served very little purpose except to Dearborn Precision Tubular Products, which used it as a cargo stop. In 2004, Eastern Slopes Aviation began to try to secure funding for development at the airport, including the construction of a terminal and the establishment of commuter service from the airport to [[Portland, Maine]], slated to begin in spring 2006. The airport handled 12,605 passengers in 2004.

== Facilities and aircraft ==
Eastern Slope Regional Airport covers an area of {{convert|533|acre|ha}} which contains one [[runway]] designated 14/32 with a {{convert|4,200|x|75|ft|m|abbr=on}} [[Asphalt concrete|asphalt]] surface. For the 12-month period ending August 16, 2021, the airport had 7,850 aircraft operations, an average of 21 per day: 96% [[general aviation]] (7,500), 3% [[air taxi]] and 2% military.<ref name=FAA />

== Airlines (passenger and cargo) ==
*[[Eastern Slopes Aviation]] (Boston's Logan, Portland)
*[[Linear Air]] (Air Charter Boston Hanscom, Bedford)

===Historical Service===
*1952–present: [[Eastern Slopes Aviation]]
*2006: [[Saco Airlines]]

==See also==
* [[List of airports in Maine]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
{{US-airport-ga|IZG|FRY}}

[[Category:Airports in Oxford County, Maine]]
[[Category:Fryeburg, Maine]]