Bend Municipal Airport

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Bend Municipal Airport
IATA: BDN - ICAO: KBDN
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		City of Bend
Serves		Bend, Oregon
Elevation AMSL		3456 ft (1053.4 m)
Coordinates		44°05′41.4000″N, 121°12′02.3000″W
Website		See External Links
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
16/34	5005	1526	Asphalt

Bend Municipal Airport (IATA: BDN, ICAO: KBDN), is a public airport located five miles (8 km) northeast of the city of Bend in Deschutes County, Oregon, USA.

Bend serves as the home to Cessna Aircraft (formerly Columbia Aircraft) and Epic Aircraft. Situated alongside the airport is Cafe 3456, named after the airport's elevation.

Located on approximately 415 acres five miles northeast of the City of Bend, Oregon, the Bend Municipal Airport traces its history back to 1942. A group of patriotic Bend citizens banded together to deed a small piece of farmland to the City of Bend for the express purpose that a municipally owned and operated landing strip be established. The site was developed and used for pilot training through World War II. Following the war, the airstrip was maintained by the City of Bend for continued civil use, where it experienced slow growth throughout the 1950's and 1960's.

By the 1970's, it was clear that the Bend Municipal Airport was becoming a significant element of the transportation infrastructure for Central Oregon and, in 1979, development of a comprehensive Airport Master Plan was undertaken. This plan established much of the direction for development at the airport and forecast significant growth in activity at the Bend Airport. This early Master Plan, however, was completed while General Aviation was booming across the country. A downturn in the general economy affected General Aviation in the 1980's and through the early 1990's, and as a result, the forecast growth in demand at the airport did not materialize. That all changed by the late 1990's, however, and General Aviation began a significant resurgence that continues today, along with tremendously increased business and corporate aviation travel into and out of Bend. Today, the Bend Municipal Airport stands poised to serve as the General Aviation and Corporate Aviation gateway to Central Oregon. Continued development of Cessna Aircraft, Epic Aircraft, Leading Edge Aviation, Precise Flight, and other growing tenants on the Airport have made a thriving aviation business park of the Bend Airport. In total, more than eighteen aviation related businesses are located on the airport employing more than 1000 people, making the Bend Municipal Airport one of the largest concentrations of family-wage jobs in the metropolitan Bend area. Over the next several years, a significant number of improvements are planned, including an Airport Master Plan Update and development of a full east side parallel taxiway, as well as more than 40 acres of general aviation and corporate aviation facilities.

The Bend Airport include a single runway, 5200 feet in length, and a corresponding full parallel taxiway. The Bend Municipal Airport is identified as a Category 2, High Activity Business and General Aviation airport by the Oregon Department of Aviation, and there are over 215 aircraft based at the airport, with over 55,000 estimated annual operations.