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The Pangborn Memorial Airport is a public use airport located in Douglas County, Washington. It is located four nautical miles (7 km) east of the central business district of Wenatchee, a city in Chelan County. The airport is owned by the Ports of Chelan and Douglas Counties.

The airport is served by one commercial airline (Alaska Airlines) providing commuter service to Seattle-Tacoma International. The Airport also serves as a regional hub for charter and corporate flight activity as well as flight training and aircraft maintenance.

Pangborn Memorial Airport is named for Clyde Pangborn, who with Hugh Herndon in 1931 flew the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean. Taking off from Misawa, Aomori, Japan with an intended destination of Seattle, they instead landed in Wenatchee due to bad weather in Seattle. Since Wenatchee was in the area of Pangborn's hometown, he was familiar with the area and chose to divert there for this historic flight, longer and more dangerous than Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic in 1927.

The Pangborn Memorial Airport covers an area of 670 acres at an elevation of 1,249 feet (381 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: Runway 12/30 is 7,000 by 150 feet. Runway 12/30 has High Intensity Runway lights, Precision Approach Path Indicators (PAPI) at both ends, a Category I Instrument Landing System for Runway 12, and Required Navigation Performance (RNP) satellite based approaches at both ends. At this time, Runway 7/25 is closed to operations.