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Dare County Regional Airport

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Coordinates:35°55′08″N75°41′44″W / 35.91889°N 75.69556°W /35.91889; -75.69556

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Airport

Dare County Regional Airport

IATA:MEO
ICAO:KMQI
FAA LID:MQI

Summary

Airport type

Public

Owner

Dare County

Serves

Manteo, North Carolina

Elevation AMSL

14 ft / 4.3 m

Coordinates

35°55′08″N75°41′44″W / 35.91889°N 75.69556°W /35.91889; -75.69556

Website

Official website

Maps

FAA airport diagram

Interactive map of Dare County Regional Airport

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
5/23	4,300	1,311	Asphalt
17/35	3,303	1,007	Asphalt

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Dare County Regional Airport (IATA:MEO,ICAO:KMQI,FAA LID:MQI) is a publicairport located one mile (2 km) northwest of thecentral business district (CBD) ofManteo, a town inDare County,North Carolina, United States. Thisgeneral aviation airport covers 340 acres (138 ha) and has tworunways.

The airport offers a small museum chronicling the history of aviation on theOuter Banks.^[2] Exhibits include models of aircraft that played a part in the history of Dare County aviation, photos and displays about local aviator Dave Driskill, and the history of the airport.

The airport is adjacent to theNorth Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letterlocation identifier for theFAA andIATA, Dare County Regional Airport is assignedMQI by the FAA^[1] andMEO by the IATA^[3] (which assignedMQI toQuincy, Massachusetts).^[4] The airport'sICAO identifier isKMQI.^[3]^[5]

FedEx Feeder is operated at the field byMountain Air Cargo.

History

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Since the early 1940s Dare County has been served by a small private airport. A public airport was under construction at the time of theAttack on Pearl Harbor, which prompted theU.S. Navy to abandon its plans to construct a Naval Auxiliary Air Station at Cape Hatteras, and instead focus on this airport, on Roanoke Island, which had a similar runway configuration. TheNaval Auxiliary Air Station Manteo (NAAS Manteo) was completed by the Navy and commissioned on March 3, 1943. NAAS Manteo was shared by theCivil Air Patrol and theU.S. Navy. As a naval air installation, NAAS Manteo and was used for special training of squadrons ofF4F Wildcats,F6F Hellcats,SB2C Helldivers,TBM and TBF Avengers,PBY Catalinas andF4U Corsairs. The Navy and theU.S. Coast Guard conducted anti-submarine patrols from the airfield until the field was placed in caretaker status December 15, 1945. In 1947, NAAS Manteo was disestablished and control of the airfield was returned to Dare County. In 1983, it was taken over by the Dare County Airport Authority.^[6]