The airport was originally constructed by the United States Navy during World War II for the purpose of testing defogging systems for aircraft. The airport is the site of the command center for and primary facilities and equipment of the United States Coast Guard Air Station Humboldt Bay, which provides rescue and law enforcement on the ocean and on land for the entire region north of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the largest airport (with the longest runway) on the Pacific Coast between the San Francisco Bay Area and Portland, Oregon. The airport is a federally designated port of entry for civil aircraft arriving in the United States. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 106,637 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 102,440 enplanements in 2009, and 93,402 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport. It is located seven nautical miles (8 mile, 13 km) north of Arcata and 15 miles (24 km) north of Eureka, in the unincorporated town of McKinleyville, California. Arcata/Eureka Airport (IATA: ACV , ICAO: KACV, FAA Location identifier: ACV), also known as Arcata Airport, is a county owned, public use airport in Humboldt County, California, United States.
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