Bryce Canyon Airport

Bryce Canyon Airport covers an area of {{convert|215|acre|ha}} which contains one asphalt paved runway (03/21) measuring 7,395 × 75 ft (2,254 × 23 m).

In the 12-month period ending September 24, 2023, the airport had 2,189 aircraft operations: 94% general aviation, and 6% air taxi.

• Air Grand Canyon (Prescott, South Rim Grand Canyon)
• Air Vegas (Las Vegas)
• Talon Air (Las Vegas)
• Grand Canyon Airlines
• King Air (Henderson)
• Westwind (Deer Valley, Page, Phoenix)

The Garfield County Airport Hangar is significant as an unusual example of a log hangar. The hangar was built of local ponderosa pine by the Works Progress Administration in 1936. The hangar's gabled roof is supported sawn wood trusses spanning {{convert|83|ft|m}}. The trusses are expressed on the outside and infilled with half-rounds of log, giving a half timbered effect. The hangar and airport were built by Garfield County and the WPA with the aim of attracting tourism to Bryce Canyon National Park, which had been designated in 1928.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=78002660}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form|last=Powell|first=Kent|date=August 17, 1977|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=2009-06-18}}

The timber used in the hangar shows the marks of the borers that infested the trees, which were harvested as part of a program to remove beetle-killed trees. The hangar is unique in its adaptation of local construction techniques to accommodate a new transportation technology.

Bryce Canyon Airport was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.{{NRISref|2009a}}

United Airlines Flight 608 a DC-6 (NC37510) was on a flight from Los Angeles to Chicago when it crashed at 12:29 pm on October 24, 1947 about 1.5 miles southeast of Bryce Canyon Airport, killing all 5 crew members and 47 passengers on board.

On October 6, 2000 American Airlines Flight 2821 departed Denver International Airport bound for Los Angeles International Airport. As the MD-82 aircraft was cruising at {{convert|33000|ft|m|abbr=on}}, there was a report of smoke in the cockpit area and loss of cabin pressure. The airliner was immediately redirected to the Bryce Canyon airport in southwestern Utah. The single runway airport usually only handles small prop planes, but was built to handle larger aircraft in case of emergency for the long stretch flights between Denver and Las Vegas. American Airlines Flight 2821 and the 75 people on board landed safely at 8:45 am.

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• [http://160knots.com/BryceCanyon.htm More about Bryce Canyon Airport]
• {{NRHP url|id=78002660|title=Photographs of Bryce County Airport|photos=y}} at the National Park Service's NRHP database

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