# Northumberland County Airport (N79)

**Northumberland County Airport** (FAA: N79) is a small airport in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, United States. It has one runway, 3,297 ft (1,005 m) long, asphalt.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/kn79

## At a glance

- FAA: N79
- Type: Small airport
- Serves: Shamokin, Pennsylvania, United States
- Elevation: 881 ft / 268 m
- Coordinates: 40.8369, -76.5525
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 3,297 ft / 1,005 m
- Instrument procedures: 3 approaches
- Time zone: UTC-5/-4 · America/New_York
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northumberland_County_Airport (2 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38251824
- Weather station: KN79
- Ident: KN79

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 08/26 | 3,297 ft / 1,005 m | 75 ft / 23 m | Asphalt | 072° / 252° | yes |

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Longest runway | 3,297 ft / 1,005 m | =13,569 of 29,858 | =5,677 in North America | =4,770 in US |
| Elevation | 881 ft / 268 m | #19,861 of 43,403 | #9,096 in North America | #7,408 in US |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =2,583 in North America | =2,326 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A/D | HARRISBURG APP/DEP | 118.250 |
| AWOS | AWOS 3 | 119.175 |
| RDO | WILLIAMSPORT RDO | 110.400 |
| UNIC | CTAF/UNICOM | 122.800 |

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- [71N](https://dromopedia.com/airports/k71n.md) Sunbury Airport · 12 mi / 20 km
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## Sources

- [FAA NASR](https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/aero_data/NASR_Subscription/): US airport data: FAA National Airspace System Resources (Public Domain (US Government))
- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/kn79/data