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Airport information for Butte Airport Country: United States Location: Butte Coordinates: 45.57.00N / 112.30.00W IATA Code: BTM Timezone: GMT -7 Direct flights form Butte Airport Direct flights to Butte Airport Find connecting flights to Butte Airport Find connecting flights from Butte Airport

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Bert Mooney Airport (IATA: BTM, ICAO: KBTM, FAA LID: BTM), is a public airport turn up 3 land mile (5 kilometre) southeastward of the central downtown of Butte, a town in Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. It is owned by the Bert Mooney Airport Authority.

The airport name was modified in 1972 to honour Bert Mooney, an flyer from Butte who was the 1st to wing get off into Yellowstone National Park in 1935. Prior to this the airport was named Butte Municipal Airport (from its opening in 1926) and Silver Bow County Airport from 1960-1972.

Facilities and aircraft

Bert Mooney Airport covers an area  of 890 acres (360 ha) which incorporates 2 asphalt paved landing track: 15/33 measure out 9,000 x 150 foot (2,744 x 46 m) and 11/29 measure out 5,100 x 75 foot (1,554 x 23 m).

For the 12-month time period finish April 30, 2007, the airport had 34,682 aircraft functioning, an mean of 95 per solar day: 74% civil aviation, 16% air cab, 9% scheduled commercial and 1% armed forces. There are 38 aircraft ground at this airport: 63% single-engine, 24% multi-engine and 13% eggbeater.

Incidents

Main article: 2009 Montana Pilatus PC-12 crash

On March 22, 2009, a Pilatus PC-12 winging in from Oroville, California crashed in Holy Cross Cemetery 500 human foot from the airport, assassination all 14 individuals on board.

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