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Dutch John (33U) is a small public-use airfield serving the town of Dutch John in Daggett County, Utah, close to the Flaming Gorge Dam and the Green River. Sited at 6,549 feet elevation amid the high plateau country of the Ashley National Forest, it offers a single paved runway for general aviation traffic visiting the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area.
Dutch John airfield lies immediately alongside the small town of the same name in eastern Daggett County, Utah, a remote high-country community built to house workers on the nearby Flaming Gorge Dam project. For a visiting VFR pilot the field's chief interest is its setting: a single-runway strip at high elevation, surrounded by the forested plateaus and canyon country of the Ashley National Forest, with the Green River and Flaming Gorge Reservoir close by.
The airfield sits at Dutch John, Utah, a few miles northeast of the Flaming Gorge Dam on U.S. Route 191, in sparsely populated Daggett County. The surrounding terrain is high plateau and forest, with no other significant towns nearby; the nearest notable landmark is the dam and reservoir itself to the southwest.
Dutch John has one physical runway, 11/29, a hard-surfaced strip measuring 5,985 feet in length. There is no ILS approach available at the field.
The Flaming Gorge Dam and the Green River, both a short distance southwest of the field, together with the Flaming Gorge Reservoir, serve as prominent visual landmarks for pilots locating the airstrip amid the forested plateau terrain.
The settlement of Dutch John takes its name from John Honselena, a nineteenth-century horse trader of German origin who was known locally as "Dutch John" because of his accent; he kept horses on range land in the area that later took his name. The town itself was platted and built beginning in 1957 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation to house workers constructing the Flaming Gorge Dam, which was completed in 1964. After the dam's completion the settlement housed a smaller population of maintenance staff and federal land-management employees, and the townsite passed from federal to private and county ownership in 1998. Dutch John was formally incorporated as a town in January 2016.
Dutch John remains a very small, remote community in Daggett County associated with dam operations and outdoor recreation around Flaming Gorge, but no current operational details, facilities, fuel availability or hours for the airfield are recorded in the sources consulted.
