Sky Harbor Airport & Seaplane Base
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Sky Harbor Airport & Seaplane Base[1] or Sky Harbor Airport[2][3] (ICAO: KDYT, FAA LID: DYT) is a public airport in Duluth, Minnesota, United States.[2] It is located near the Wisconsin border, between Superior Bay and Lake Superior.[4] The airport is six nautical miles (11 km) southeast of the central business district of Duluth, Minnesota, on Minnesota Point within its city limits.[2]
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
Owner | Duluth Airport Authority | ||||||||||||||||||
Serves | Duluth, Minnesota | ||||||||||||||||||
Opened | 1939<ref="StarTrib2020"/> | ||||||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 610 ft / 186 m | ||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 46°43′19″N 092°02′36″W | ||||||||||||||||||
Website | www.duluthairport.com/... | ||||||||||||||||||
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The airport is owned by the Duluth Airport Authority and has been operating for over 50 years. It is one of only four airports in Minnesota offering both a hard surface runway for airplanes and water landing areas for seaplanes.[3]
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Sky Harbor Airport is assigned DYT by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.[5]