Albany International Airport

Albany International Airport
FAA airport diagram
IATA: ALB ICAO: KALB FAA LID: ALB ALB Location of the Albany International Airport
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Albany County, New York
Operator	Albany County Airport Authority
Serves	Albany and Capital District, New York
Location	Latham, New York
Focus city for	Cape Air
Elevation AMSL	285 ft / 87 m
Coordinates	42°44′57″N 073°48′07″W / 42.74917°N 73.80194°W / 42.74917; -73.80194
Website	www.albanyairport.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 1/19 8,500 2,591 Asphalt 10/28 7,200 2,195 Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Aircraft operations 154,094 Based aircraft 85 Passengers (2013) 2,393,506
Source: Federal Aviation Administration,ACI

Albany International Airport (IATA: ALB, ICAO: KALB, FAA LID: ALB) is a public airport seven miles (11 km) northwest of Albany, in Albany County, New York, United States. It is owned by the Albany County Airport Authority.

It is an Airport of Entry in Lanham, a hamlet within the town of Colonie. It was built on the site of the Shaker settlement about 6 miles (10 km) north of Albany and stretching north to the hamlet of Verdoy. The airport is below class C airspace.

In the past, most airlines operated mainline aircraft to ALB. The biggest aircraft that flew into ALB was Air Force One (Boeing 747), which has made four appearances: in 1994, 2009, 2011, and again in 2012. The C-5 Galaxy has landed for training, for cargo during Hurricane Katrina, and for the transportation of President Obama's motorcade on September 20 and 21, 2009. An Air Canada Airbus A340-300 (which has seating for 286 passengers) made an unscheduled arrival on December 21, 2007. Also, on August 10, 2012, a United Airlines Boeing 767-400 flight from Munich, Germany was diverted to Albany due to bad weather conditions at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey where the flight was expected to land.