By the 1970's, it was clear that the Bend Municipal Airport was becoming a part of the transportation network for Central Oregon and development of a comprehensive Airport Master Plan was undertaken in 1979.  This plan established much of the direction for development at the airport and forecasted significant growth in activity at the Bend Airport in coming years.  This early Master Plan, however, was completed while General Aviation was booming across the country.  A downturn in the general economy affected General Aviation in the 1980's and through the early 1990's, and as a result, the forecast growth in demand at the airport did not materialize.  That all changed by the late 1990's, though, and General Aviation began a significant resurgence that continues today, along with tremendously increased business and corporate aviation travel into and out of Bend.  Today, in 2005, the Bend Municipal Airport stands poised to serve as the General Aviation and Corporate Aviation gateway to Central Oregon, for now and into the future. 

 Facilities at the Bend Municipal Airport include a single runway,  5200 feet in length, and a corresponding full parallel taxiway.  The Bend Municipal Airport is identified as a Category 2, High Activity Business and General Aviation airport by the Oregon Department of Aviation, and there are over 200 aircraft based at the airport, with over 42,000 estimated annual operations.  Today, more than eighteen aviation related businesses are located on the airport employing more than 1000 people, making the Bend Municipal Airport one of the largest concentrations of family-wage jobs in the metropolitan Bend area.

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BEND MUNICIPAL AIRPORT ADDRESS

Physical Address:  63136 Powell Butte Hwy, Bend, Oregon 97701

Mailing Address:  PO Box 431, Bend, Oregon 97709

Airport Manager:  Gary Judd    
Contact Information:  (541) 389-0258 or email gjudd@ci.bend.or.us