Bend Municipal Airport

Bend Municipal Airport (ICAO: KBDN, FAA LID: BDN) is a city-owned airport six miles northeast of Bend, in Deschutes County, Oregon. This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorizes it as a general aviation facility. Bend is home to Cessna Aircraft (formerly Columbia Aircraft) and Epic Aircraft.

Commercial air traffic to Central Oregon uses Roberts Field in Redmond, Oregon, about 20 miles north of Bend.

Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but this airport is assigned BDN by the FAA and has no IATA code (which assigned BDN to Talhar Airport in Badin, Pakistan).

History

Covering about 415 acres (1.68 km²), Bend Municipal Airport traces its history back to 1942. A group of Bend citizens banded together to deed a small piece of farmland to the City of Bend for a municipal landing strip. The site was developed and used for pilot training through World War II. After the war the airstrip was maintained by the City of Bend for civil use; it slowly grew during the 1950s and 1960s.