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13-518: SDX or sdx may refer to: SDX, the IATA code for Sedona Airport , Arizona, United States SDX, the station code for Sidki railway station , Pakistan sdx, the ISO 639-3 code for Sibu Melanau language , Malaysia and Brunei Sadako DX , a 2022 Japanese supernatural comedy film Serdexmethylphenidate , prodrug of dexmethylphenidate Topics referred to by

26-468: A high mesa overlooking a major portion of the city; it has been termed a tabletop runway . It is not uncommon for tourists or locals driving around downtown Sedona to see an approaching airplane fly overhead and then suddenly disappear into the mountains without ever appearing to land. The airport is also located very close to the Red Rocks of Sedona . The airport is well known as being the location of

39-654: A route from Salt Lake City to Blanding, Utah, making stops at five other cities. During the mid-1970s, Scenic operated from a hub in Las Vegas providing service to Grand Canyon, Page, and Yuma in Arizona, to Long Beach, Palm Springs, Carlsbad, El Centro, and Death Valley in California, and to Ely, and Elko, Nevada. The carrier flew de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter and Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner aircraft. During

52-792: A size of a Boeing 737 or larger. It does, however, attract a large number of smaller business jets and aircraft such as Cessna and Beech airplanes and helicopters . At one point, the airport was served by Desert Pacific Airlines . Scenic Airlines discontinued service at Sedona in April 1997. Scenic Airlines Grand Canyon Scenic Airlines is an American regional airline based in Paradise , Nevada , United States. It operates sightseeing flights from Boulder City Municipal Airport in Boulder City, Nevada . Scenic has been owned by Grand Canyon Airlines since 2008. Scenic Airlines

65-473: A small, paved runway had been built. By 1990, the airport's runway had been improved and it had begun to receive service from a local scheduled airline. Air Sedona, founded by Jack Seeley in 1981, served Sedona from such places as Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix , Las Vegas , the nearby Grand Canyon airport and others until 1995. Sedona's airport is not able to accommodate commercial jets of

78-561: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Sedona Airport Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA , Sedona Airport is assigned SEZ by the FAA and SDX by the IATA (which assigned SEZ to Seychelles International Airport in Mahé , Seychelles ). The airport is located on top of

91-524: The 1980s Scenic operated a vintage Ford Trimotor aircraft on its flight seeing tours. This was the type aircraft operated by the original Scenic Airways of the late 1920s that also operated flight seeing service across the Grand Canyon. In 1994 the Seibolds sold the airline to SkyWest Airlines and it continued to see growth until it merged with Eagle Canyon Airlines in 1999. In 1999, Scenic

104-500: The design and manufacturing rights to turboprop-powered conversions of the Cessna 402 and Cessna 414 from American Jet Industries . In 1983, the airline co-developed modifications to the de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter to make it more suitable for use as an air tour airplane. The airline eventually moved to Las Vegas's Harry Reid International Airport (LAS). In the late 1960s, Scenic operated scheduled passenger flights on

117-478: The flying lessons on the ground and in the air in Microsoft Flight Simulator , where it is also one of the handcrafted airports, giving real-life detail of the taxiways and runway . The airport was inaugurated in 1955. At that time it had no paved runway, and animals such as coyotes could be seen walking around the air-strip. This proved dangerous to pilots arriving at Sedona. By 1957,

130-403: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title SDX . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SDX&oldid=1220383930 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

143-653: The scheduled service flights, including those to Ely, Nevada, were Essential Air Service routes and were then picked up by Air Midwest operating as US Airways Express . On March 29, 2007, Scenic Airlines was sold to Grand Canyon Airlines and was subsequently renamed Grand Canyon Scenic Airlines. The airline continued to operate from the Boulder City airport providing services to Grand Canyon West , Grand Canyon, Page, Arizona , Monument Valley, Utah , and Rainbow Bridge, Utah . At that time, Grand Canyon Scenic Airlines continued to operate sightseeing flight services to

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156-427: Was operating scheduled passenger service between Las Vegas (LAS) and Grand Canyon National Park Airport (GCN) with Fokker F27 turboprops. In the spring of 2006, citing rising fuel costs, the airline announced it would be ceasing scheduled passenger operations in order to focus on its sightseeing flights, thus abandoning its scheduled services using its fleet of three Beechcraft 1900 turboprop aircraft. Almost all of

169-575: Was started by John and Elizabeth Seibold and their single engine Cessna airplane in North Las Vegas Airport in 1967. Between 1967 and 1993 Scenic Airlines grew to be one of the world's largest fixed-wing air tour operations. In 2000, John Seibold was recognized by the Las Vegas Review Journal as being one of the most influential businessmen in Las Vegas in the previous 100 years. In 1977, Scenic Airlines purchased

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