# Presque Isle International Airport (PQI / KPQI)

**Presque Isle International Airport** (IATA: PQI, ICAO: KPQI) is a medium airport in Presque Isle, Maine, United States. It opened in Apr 1940. It has 2 runways; the longest is 7,441 ft (2,268 m). In 2025 it handled 42 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: PQI / KPQI
- FAA: PQI
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Presque Isle, Maine, United States
- Opened: Apr 1940
- Elevation: 534 ft / 163 m
- Coordinates: 46.6890, -68.0448
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 7,441 ft / 2,268 m
- Instrument procedures: 5 approaches
- Passengers: 42,283 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-5/-4 · America/New_York
- Website: https://www.flypresqueisle.com/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presque_Isle_International_Airport (8 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7058696
- Weather station: KPQI · WMO 72713
- Ident: KPQI

## Timeline

- Apr 1940: Presque Isle International Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 01/19 | 7,441 ft / 2,268 m | 150 ft / 46 m | Asphalt | 346° / 166° | yes |
| 10/28 | 6,000 ft / 1,829 m | 100 ft / 31 m | Asphalt | 076° / 256° | yes |

- 01/19 slopes 1.1%: threshold 01 at 455 ft / 139 m, threshold 19 at 534 ft / 163 m.

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 25,756 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2016 | 24,855 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2017 | 25,383 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2018 | 21,471 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2019 | 26,287 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2020 | 10,630 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2021 | 22,415 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2022 | 30,750 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2023 | 38,387 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2024 | 43,229 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2025 | 42,283 | BTS T-100 Segment |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [BOS](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kbos.md) Boston Logan International Airport · United States · 332 mi / 535 km · JetBlue Airways

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from PQI, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- B6 [JetBlue Airways](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/jetblue-airways) · 1

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 42K (2025) | #2,151 of 3,974 | #491 in North America | #334 in US |
| Longest runway | 7,441 ft / 2,268 m | #3,157 of 29,858 | #691 in North America | #514 in US |
| Elevation | 534 ft / 163 m | =26,534 of 43,403 | =12,716 in North America | =10,624 in US |
| Age | Opened 1940 | =1,114 of 15,079 | =366 in North America | =338 in US |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =435 in North America | =391 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AWOS | AWOS 3 | 118.025 |
| CLD | BOSTON CLNC DEL | 121.600 |
| CNTR | BOSTON CNTR | 124.750 |
| UNIC | CTAF/UNICOM | 122.800 |

## Nearby airports

- [CAR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kcar.md) Caribou Municipal Airport · 13 mi / 20 km
- [YSL](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cysl.md) Saint-Léonard Airport · 34 mi / 54 km
- [HUL](https://dromopedia.com/airports/khul.md) Houlton International Airport · 41 mi / 66 km
- [YFC](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyfc.md) Fredericton International Airport · 92 mi / 148 km

## Sources

- [BTS T-100 Segment](https://www.transtats.bts.gov/Tables.asp?QO_VQ=EEE&QO_anzr=Nv4%20Pn44vr45): US traffic: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (Public Domain (US Government))
- [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)
- [Wikipedia: “Presque Isle International Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Presque_Isle_International_Airport&oldid=1367104573), revision of 1 Aug 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [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/kpqi/data