Town of Malone

"Foothills of the Adirondacks"

27Airport Rd. - Malone, NY 12953 ~ Phone: 518-483-4740 ~ Fax: 518-483-1445

Dufort Airport

Phone: 481-5521

	Airport manager for 15 years. Duties included: fielding airport user complaints, collecting rental payments, leasing hangar space, dealing with engineers and contractors when projects are done at the airport and most importantly insuring a safe environment for pilots utilizing our airport.
Mark Besio	Term Expires: 12/31/2007

Malone Dufort Airport

(MAL) 786' 2W [IAP].

GPS Location: 44°51.22'N 74°19.22'W.

A new Snow Removal equipment building has just been completed and plans are to purchase snow removal equipment in the near future.

Runway 14/32 it is not plowed and requires visual inspection before attempting to land, 14/32 and 5/23 along with the taxi way are now in very good condition.

The beacon operates from dusk to dawn and there now is a Segmented Circle and Wind Cone

Attended: Irregular

Runway 5/23 is 4000' inc DT x 100' Surface: Asphalt Gradient/Direction: N/S

Runway 14/32 is 3245' inc DT x 75' Surface: Asphalt Gradient/Direction: N/S

Lighting: Runway Edge 5/23 - 14/32 Pilot controlled 5 clicks

HISTORY:

Airport and Airport Administration Building were opened in 1949 through a joint effort by the Town of Malone and the Civil Aeronautics Board.

Town Supervisor at that time was Henry Maguire and board members were F. Wilcox, S. Child, M. Desnoyers and R. Maneely.