Merle K. (Mudhole) Smith Airport code (CDV)

Merle K. (Mudhole) Smith Airport is a state owned, public use airport located 20 km southeast of the central business district of Cordova, a city in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska which has no road access to the outside world. Airline service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. The airport is named after Merle K. Smith, also known as "Mudhole", a pilot who in 1939 became president of Cordova Airlines, which used the airport as a hub between 1934 and 1968.

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