Ralph Wenz Field is a town-owned public-use airport

Airport

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 located five nautical miles (9 km) southeast of the central business district

Central business district

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 of the town of Pinedale

Pinedale, Wyoming

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 in Sublette County, Wyoming

Wyoming

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, United States

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Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier

Location identifier

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 for the FAA

Federal Aviation Administration

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 and IATA

International Air Transport Association

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, this airport is assigned PNA by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned PNA to Pamplona Airport

Pamplona Airport

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 in Pamplona

Pamplona

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, Spain

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Facilities and aircraft

Ralph Wenz Field covers an area of 485 acres (196.3 ha) at an elevation

Elevation

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 of 7,086 feet (2,160 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt

Asphalt

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 paved runway

Runway

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 designated 11/29 which measures 7,100 by 100 feet (2,164 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2007, the airport had 9,516 aircraft operations, an average of 26 per day: 63% general aviation

General aviation

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, 37% air taxi

Air taxi

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, <1% military

Military aviation

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