Beach Airport
airport in North Dakota, United States of America
Beach Airport (FAA LID: 20U) is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) east-northeast of the central business district of Beach, in Golden Valley County, North Dakota, United States. It is owned by the Golden Valley County Airport Authority.
Facilities and aircraft
Beach Airport covers an area of 175 acres (71 ha) which contains one runway designated 12/30 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,200 by 60 feet (1,280 x 18 m).
For the 12-month period ending May 2, 2023, the airport had 3,630 aircraft operations: 96% general aviation, 3% air taxi, and <1% military.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Beach Airport” as airport in North Dakota, United States of America. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as airport in North Dakota, United States of America. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2265702. Authority coordinates are 46.925, -103.982. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2023.
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Three-step research path
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Beach Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.