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Great airport!!
This little airport is the best kept secret in Minnesota and it shouldn't be. Best pilot lounge ever!
Cafe at Yerrington is closed
The next closest restaurant is McDonald's just a short walk up the street outside the airport.
Good paint shop on the field. Had my RV-4 painted there.
Wrong ID?
The FAA uses this id, 7GA6, elsewhere.
This time the FAA is wrong
For some reason, the FAA has this heliport miles away in Lowell Kansas! I'll write to them.
Wrong ID?
The FAA uses this id elsewhere.
Wrong ID?
The FAA uses 5PA0 elsewhere.
Wrong ID?
The FAA uses "LA03" on a different airport.
Homwe of Pelican Airways
I spent a beautiful sunny and humid rainy time at North Perry Airport were I passed my private pilot license in the 90's. I will never forget the British couple being the bosses of that unique flying school...
Often revisited
I love Palm Springs and had many landings at this real hot airfield.
Interesting airport at Wisconsin
I spent a couple of landings at Murmuring springs during my Biannual Review near Necedah Wisconsin; it's worth going again.
Best landing wishes Andreas Krug, Private Pilot, Lufthansa Engineering, Frankfurt, Germany
Wrong ID?
The FAA has a different airport with '45AR', and doesn't have this airport at all.
Wrong id?
There is a different 21PN in the FAA data.
Is this airport for real?
The FAA has assigned this id (1TX0) to another airport (LYTLE, TX) and doesn't have an airport here.
Closed?
Was in FAA data, isn't any more.
Closed?
Another one that disappeared from the FAA data.
Closed?
Another one that used to be in the FAA data, and isn't any more. I'm reluctant to close it, because it's private and a private individual might have their own reasons to not appear in the FAA data any more.
Closed?
Used to be in FAA data, isn't any more.
Closed?
Used to be in FAA data, isn't any more.
Closed?
This used to be in the FAA data, but it isn't any more.
Gone?
Not in any recent FAA dataset.
Not in any recent FAA data
Maybe it's closed?
Runways?
FAA data still only shows a 18/36 turf runway, but that sure looks like a paved runway in the satellite photo.
New airport
According to its web site, this is a brand new airport that opened in November 2008. It does not yet appear in the Google satellite imagery.
Blissville and Trans Canada Airlines
Here's an edited version of an article that I wrote about Blissville.
The Blissville Airport was built in the late 1930s as part of the Trans Canada Airways system. Airports and navigation systems were built approximately 100 miles (160kms) apart, covering Canada coast to coast, to facilitate air mail and eventually passenger traffic. It was located about 30 miles (50km) SW of Fredericton on a dusty gravel road and didn’t see the first scheduled TCA flight until May 10, 1941 a stop on the Montreal to Halifax route. Evidently it wasn’t too successful as the trial ended six weeks later on June 15.
On July 1, 1944 Blissville was again added to the TCA route, becoming a regional airport for SW New Brunswick, and this time it was promoted with direct cab service both to Fredericton and Saint John. The distance to Saint John was about 35-40 miles (50-60km) SE, halfway being on dirt roads. TCA pulled out of Blissville when the Airport at Pennfield Ridge was opened up to serve Saint John on April 1, 1947. The terminal/operations building was later disassembled and moved in sections to serve the same purpose at the new Fredericton Airport (YFC) until a new terminal was built there in 1963.
Over the last several decades, the Blissville Airport has been used by Forest Protection Ltd. as a base for fighting forest fires and conducting spraying operations. It is now located just inside the boundary of CFB Gagetown with a 4000 foot (1200m) paved runway and a Military Airport code – CCH3.
(adapted from article by George Brien that appeared in the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum Newsletter, Fall 2007)
If anyone interested, I have lots of info on TCA people that worked there in the mid 40's.
gnbrien@eastlink.ca
Nice Airport
I've been to Kane twice in the past two weeks (12/19/08 and 12/25/09-12/31/08). First time was for the day only in my 310 and the second time was in an Arrow. Both times I used Cirrus Flight Operations and both times I was very happy with the service I received as well as the prices for hangers and fuel. Paccair flies 310s out of Cirrus so I had an opportunity to discuss the finer points of the the old girl with freight dogs who have many more hours in them than me.
It appears...
I can't find anything definitive yet, but it appears that Roosevelt Road Naval Air Station closed a few years ago, and Jose Aponte De La Torre Airport opened on the same site quite recently.
Wrong ID?
The FAA has "93TX" as a heliport in Fort Worth.
Wrong ID?
This isn't the NJ77 in the FAA data - that one is "Warren County Public Safety Department".
Kathrinstadt Airport, Home of Aeromarine West Indies Airways
Kathrinstadt Airport is a private airport located approximately 25 miles southwest of St. Augustine, Florida. Because it is registered with the FAA as a “Private Airport,” access is restricted, and limited to aircraft who receive landing clearance from the airport manager. Kathrinstadt Airport, besides being modeled after a 1920's style aerodrome, is also noted as being the maintenance airfield of Aeromarine West Indies Airways Corporation, an up-and-coming scheduled passenger airline service and aviation center.
Operational specifics are as follows:
Coordinates: Latitude 29° 38' 7" and Longitude 81° 27' 55"
Airport Identifier: 2FA7
Landing Surface: grass (turf)
Runway Length: 700 ft.
Runway Width: 110 ft.
Orientation of Runway: 09-27 (east-west)
Obstructions: trees at both approach ends of runways
Airport Indicators: lighted windsock, lighted segmented circle
Traffic Pattern: right traffic Runway 9 and left traffic Runway 27
Unicom frequency: 122.9
Operations: VFR only
Based Aircraft: 2 aircraft currently based at this airport (1 multi-engine and 1 single-engine)
Facilities: there is one maintenance hangar located at the center/north side of the runways.
Airport Hours: airport is attended 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
Security: 24 hour armed security, electric/barbed wire fencing, motion sensing cameras.
Contact information: the airport manager can be contacted via email at Aeromarine.Airways@yahoo.com or by phone at the Aeromarine Office @ 386-585-8534.
Services: general mainenance facilities for Aeromarine West Indies Airways Corp only.
Information about Aeromarine West Indies Airways can be found at: http://aeromarine-airways.com/
Operational warnings: besides being restricted to those aircraft who secure clearance from the airport manager, extreme care must be exercised with regards to operations. Kathrinstadt Airport is to be considered for use by STOL aircraft, aircraft with STOL characteristics, and ultralights only! Also, ONLY experienced airmen are to be granted operational clearance to use Kathrinstadt Airport, and this at the airport manager’s discretion.
Official website for Kathrinstadt Airport: http://kathrinstadt-airport.8m.com/
The airport manager can be contacted via e-mail at the following:
Kathrinstadt_Airport@yahoo.com
The airport address:
Kathrinstadt Airport
10460 Turpin Ave.
Hastings, Florida. 32145
The airport manager can be reached via Unicom, or by phone at the Aeromarine office:
Unicom frequency: 122.9
Flight office: 386-585-8534
re: Airport Identifier: 2FA7, Home of Aeromarine West Indies
The phone number for Aeromarine West Indies Airways Corp & the flight office at Kathrinstadt Airport has changed... the new phone number is: (386) 585-8534
Data problem
This airport doesn't exist in the FAA data (although there is an airport either right here, or very nearby, called Hill Top, with the id "JY43". Plus, there is a different airport with the id "3NJ9" called "Allen Airstrip".
re: Hmmm
I'm reluctant about merging heliports with each-other, since they can sometimes be very close (especially in Urban areas), and these two have different names. I'll keep an eye open for more info.
Hmmm
I added this one from FAA data, and it appears to be in exactly the same point as O01, which is not in the FAA data. They should probably be merged.
Not in FAA data
Not in the FAA data set, but it's obviously there in the satellite picture.
FAA again
The FAA says that this is an airport, not a heliport, with both a 3100x60 turf runway 09/27, and a 50x50 turf helipad.
re: Weird
Well, it definitely looks like an airstrip in the satellite photo. I wonder where that site got the information, if not from the FAA?
re: Weird
Here's some info about Putz Airport: http://airports.aircraftdata.net/airport/24369_01-A/PUTZ.aspx
re: Weird
Thanks, Paul. I've removed the airport codes for now, since they're probably not official.
Does not appear in FAA data
Not in the FAA data, nor is it on the sectional chart.
Weird
This airport does not appear in the FAA data, but has another one "Moore Airpark" (TX54) very near by.
re: Weird
I send them emails when I notice something really strange, like the mix-up with KJUV becoming KXLL.
re: Weird
You know, Paul, if we get a good community organized, we could end up being a source for the FAA. With volunteer contributors, we can mobilize a lot more resources than they can for airport data management.
From Wikipedia
"A short coral runway still remains on the island, but is in disuse and is not maintained."
Another data anomaly
Not marked at closed in the FAA data, shown on the Baltimore-Washington TAC but not on the Washington Sectional.
Weird
It's in the FAA data still, but with a remark "(ARPT STATUS) ARPT CLSD PERMLY." You'd think that since the Google map now shows the subdivision that they'd remove it.
re: Maybe closed to itinerant, but it's still open
I checked again with the Burlington controller when I overflew this summer, and he said that the field is closed completely now.
Maybe closed to itinerant, but it's still open
It's still marked as open in the FAA data, although it has a remark "ARPT CLSD TO ACR & TSNT ACFT." I'm not sure what "ACR" is, but "TSNT" is obviously "transient". I assume that means it's open to based aircraft.
WiFi
Sometimes when I'm in Ottawa with nothing better to do, I go to the Ottawa Flying Club to leach their wifi, eat something from the snackbar and watch the planes go by. I wish my flying club had a club house.
Fuel
Self Serve fuel available, good price. Fall 2007
Beautiful approach
🔗 Wed, 14 Jan 2009
— @svanarts at Shelter Cove Airport, United States
This airport has to have one of the most stunning visuals on approach. You have waves crashing up almost at the approach end of either runway. Just beautiful.