Bermuda Dunes Airport | |||||||||||
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Owner | Bermuda Dunes Airport Corp. | ||||||||||
Serves | Coachella Valley, California | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 73 ft / 22 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 33°44′54″N 116°16′29″W / 33.74833°N 116.27472°WCoordinates: 33°44′54″N 116°16′29″W / 33.74833°N 116.27472°W | ||||||||||
Website | www |
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Location of airport in California | |||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration
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Aircraft operations | 40,020 |
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Based aircraft | 137 |
Bermuda Dunes Airport (IATA: UDD, ICAO: KUDD, FAA LID: UDD) is a public use airport located 13 nautical miles (15 mi, 24 km) east of the central business district of Palm Springs, a city in the Coachella Valley in Riverside County, California, United States. It is privately owned by the Bermuda Dunes Airport Corp.
The airport is home to Desert West Aviation, a local flight school as well as Desert Jet, a local aircraft charter company recently named the preferred jet provider for the airport
Bermuda Dunes Airport covers an area of 94 acres (38 ha) at an elevation of 73 feet (22 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 10/28 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,002 by 70 feet (1,525 x 21 m).
For the 12-month period ending January 5, 2011, the airport had 40,020 aircraft operations, an average of 109 per day: 80% general aviation and 20% air taxi. At that time there were 137 aircraft based at this airport: 75% single-engine, 16% multi-engine, 7% jet, and 2% helicopter.
Air LA, a commuter airline that was based in Los Angeles, operated scheduled passenger flights from the airport in 1989 with British Aerospace BAe Jetstream 31 turboprop aircraft nonstop to Las Vegas (LAS) and Los Angeles (LAX).