Kickapoo Downtown Airport

Kickapoo Downtown Airport
IATA: KIP – ICAO: KCWC – FAA LID: CWC
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of Wichita Falls
Serves Wichita Falls, Texas
Elevation AMSL 1,003 ft / 306 m
Coordinates 33°51′38″N 098°29′25″W / 33.86056°N 98.49028°W / 33.86056; -98.49028
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
17/35 4,450 1,356 Concrete
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations 22,400
Based aircraft 76

Kickapoo Downtown Airport (IATA: KIP, ICAO: KCWC, FAA LID: CWC, formerly T47) is a city-owned public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) south of the central business district of Wichita Falls, a city in Wichita County, Texas, United States.[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned CWC by the FAA and KIP by the IATA[2] (which assigned CWC to Chernovtsy Airport in Chernovtsy, Ukraine).[3]

Facilities and aircraft

Kickapoo Downtown Airport covers an area of 149 acres (60 ha) at an elevation of 1,003 feet (306 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 17/35 with a concrete surface measuring 4,450 by 75 feet (1,356 x 23 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending August 12, 2008, the airport had 22,400 aircraft operations, an average of 61 per day: 99% general aviation and 1% air taxi. At that time there were 76 aircraft based at this airport: 64% single-engine, 29% multi-engine, 4% jet and 3% helicopter.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for CWC (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective July 2, 2009.
  2. ↑ Great Circle Mapper: KIP / KCWC - Wichita Falls, Texas - Kickapoo Downtown Airport
  3. ↑ Aviation Safety Network: CWC / UKLN - Chernovtsy Airport, Ukraine

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