Alva Regional Airport (ICAO: KAVK, FAA LID: AVK) is a city-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) south of the central business district of Alva, a city in Woods County, Oklahoma, United States.[2] It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[3]

Alva Regional Airport
IATA: none ICAO: KAVK FAA LID: AVK
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Alva
Operator	Derrick Courson[1]
Serves	Alva, Oklahoma
Elevation AMSL	1,474 ft / 449 m
Coordinates	36°46′25″N 098°40′13″W
Website	www.AlvaOK.org/...
Map
AVK Location of airport in Oklahoma
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 18/36 4,999 1,524 Concrete 8/26 1,300 396 Turf
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations 6,500 Based aircraft 51
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[2]

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,[2] but has no designation from the IATA[4] (which assigned AVK to Arvaikheer Airport in Arvaikheer, Mongolia).[5]

Facilities and aircraft

Alva Regional Airport covers an area of 650 acres (263 ha) at an elevation of 1,474 feet (449 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 18/36 is 4,999 by 75 feet (1,524 x 23 m) with a concrete surface and 8/26 is 1,300 by 170 foot (396 x 52 m) turf runway.[6]

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.[2]

References

External links

• Alva Regional Airport Department at City of Alva website
• Alva Regional Airport (AVK) Archived 2013-03-15 at the Wayback Machine at Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission
• Aerial image as of February 1995 from USGS The National Map
• FAA Terminal Procedures for AVK, effective May 19, 2022

• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for AVK
  • AirNav airport information for KAVK
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures