Friday Harbor Airport

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Friday Harbor Airport is a public use airport located just southwest of the town center of Friday Harbor on San Juan Island in the U.S. state of Washington. It is owned by the Port of Friday Harbor.Friday Harbor is also the default airport of Microsoft Flight Simulator X, although Aircraft spawn in the air above the airport and must land there first.Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned FHR by the FAA and FRD by the IATA.Facilities and aircraftFriday Harbor Airport covers an area of 145acre which contains one runway (16/34) with a 3,402 x 75 ft (1,037 x 23 m) asphalt pavement. For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2011, the airport had 48,766 aircraft operations, an average of 134 per day: 42% local general aviation, 28% transient general aviation, and 30% air taxi. At that time there were 142 aircraft based at this airport: 95% single-engine and 5% multi-engine.