Alva Regional Airport


Alva Regional Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles south of the central business district of Alva, a city in Woods County, Oklahoma, United States. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned AVK by the FAA, but has no designation from the IATA.

Facilities and aircraft

Alva Regional Airport covers an area of 650 acres at an elevation of 1,474 feet above mean sea level. It has two paved runways: 18/36 is 4,999 by 75 feet with a concrete surface and 17/35 is 4,386 by 75 feet with an asphalt surface. The former 1,300 by 170 foot turf runway designated 8/26 is closed.
For the 12-month period ending February 19, 2008, the airport had 6,500 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 17 per day. At that time there were 51 aircraft based at this airport: 94% single-engine, 4% multi-engine, and 2% helicopter.