Clinton County Airport | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner | Clinton County | ||||||||||||||
Serves | City of Plattsburgh, New York | ||||||||||||||
Location | Town of Plattsburgh, New York | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 371 ft / 113 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 44°41′15″N 073°31′28″W / 44.68750°N 73.52444°W | ||||||||||||||
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Clinton County Airport (IATA: PLB, ICAO: KPLB, FAA LID: PLB) is a former county-owned public-use airport in Clinton County, New York, United States. It is located 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) west of the central business district of the city of Plattsburgh.[1] It served Plattsburgh and the western side of Lake Champlain.
Clinton County transitioned to using the nearby Plattsburgh International Airport (44°39′03″N 073°28′05″W / 44.65083°N 73.46806°W) as the primary airport for the region on June 18, 2007, and Clinton County Airport is now officially closed to itinerant aircraft, though it is still used for paradrops, and a few aircraft are still based there.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 1,712 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2004 and 1,747 enplanements in 2005.[2] According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007–2011, Clinton County was categorized as a general aviation airport because the commercial service category required at least 2,500 passenger boardings per year.[3]
In 1972, a FB-111A Aardvark landed at the airport after the pilot mistook the runway for the airport as being the nearby Plattsburgh Air Force Base.[4]