Bethel Regional Airport is a public airport

Airport

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 located two miles (3 km) northwest of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Bethel

Bethel, Maine

Bethel is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,411 at the 2000 census. It includes the villages of West Bethel and South Bethel...

, a town in Oxford County

Oxford County, Maine

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, Maine

Maine

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, United States

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. It is owned by the Town of Bethel.

The airport is currently not served by any commercial airline, though on-demand service is available on Linear Air

Linear Air

Linear Air is a private part-135 charter operator and air taxi service headquartered near Boston in Concord, Massachusetts. Linear Air's primary operations base is located at Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts, and the company also operates from a base at Westchester County Airport in White...

. A free shuttle runs between the town of Bethel and Sunday River ski resort, stopping at the airport on-demand and for occasional scheduled stops.

Facilities and aircraft

Bethel Regional Airport covers an area of 225 acres (91.1 ha) which contains one asphalt

Asphalt

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 paved runway

Runway

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 (14/32) measuring 3,818 x 75 ft (1,164 x 23 m).

For the 12-month period ending August 26, 2006, the airport had 4,520 aircraft operations, an average of 12 per day: 99.6% general aviation

General aviation

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 and 0.4% military. There are 13 aircraft based at this airport: 77% single-engine, 15% ultralight and 8% multi-engine.

External links

• Bethel Regional Airport (site down)
• Bethel Regional Airport page at town website (returns a 404 Error)
• Information for pilots at clearancewiki.com