Welke Airport
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Welke Airport (Template:Comma separated entries) is a privately-owned, public use airport located on Beaver Island in Charlevoix County, Michigan, United States.[1] Scheduled passenger service to Charlevoix Municipal Airport in Charlevoix, Michigan, is provided by Island Airways.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 16,542 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,[2] 11,976 enplanements in 2009, and 13,558 in 2010.[3]
Facilities and aircraft
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For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2019, the airport had 13,000 aircraft operations, an average of 36 per day: 42% general aviation and 58% air taxi. At that time there were 19 aircraft based at this airport: 12 single-engine, 6 multi-engine and 1 helicopter.[1][4]
Island Airways operates an FBO at the airport. It offers services such as general maintenance, hangars, and courtesy cars.[5]
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
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Accidents and incidents
- On September 1, 1995, a pilot and his passenger sustained minor injury after a Grumman AA-5 belonging to a small airline named Conrad Aero crashed during an attempted go-around at Welke Airport. The airplane impacted terrain and was destroyed.[6]
- On November 14, 2021, a Britten-Norman BN-2A operated by Island Airways, crashed at Welke, killing four of the five passengers aboard. The only survivor, an 11-year-old girl, was taken to a hospital in Petoskey.[7]
See also
References
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External links
- Island Airways
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". (37.4 KB)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". at Michigan Airport Directory
- Aerial image as of May 1999 from USGS The National Map
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for 6Y8
- AirNav airport information for 6Y8
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for 6Y8