Du Bois Regional Airport
DuBois Regional Airport (IATA: DUJ, ICAO: KDUJ, FAA LID: DUJ), formerly known as DuBois-Jefferson County Airport, is a public use airport located seven nautical miles (8 mi, 13 km) northwest of the central business district of DuBois, a city in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. The airport is situated on Pennsylvania Route 830 in Washington Township, Jefferson County. It is owned and operated by the Clearfield-Jefferson Counties Regional Airport Authority, which is based on the airport grounds. It is mostly used for general aviation but is also served by one commercial airline, Silver Airways, which has a maintenance base at the airport. Service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. The airport serves Clearfield, Elk, and Jefferson counties.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 3,230 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 5,096 enplanements in 2009, and 5,728 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year).
DuBois Regional is a popular refueling stop for many transient aircraft due to its proximity to Interstate 80 and several main east-west air routes, as well as an on-field restaurant.
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