Falcon Field (Arizona)

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Falcon Field
IATA: MSC - ICAO: KFFZ - FAA: FFZ
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		City of Mesa
Serves		Mesa, Arizona
Elevation AMSL		1,394 ft (424.9 m)
Coordinates		33°27′39″N, 111°43′42″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
4R/22L	5,102	1,555	Asphalt
4L/22R	3,801	1,159	Asphalt
Helipads
Number	Size		Surface
Number	ft	m	Surface
H1	60	18	Asphalt
H2	60	18	Asphalt

For other airports with this name, see Falcon Field.

Falcon Field (IATA: MSC, ICAO: KFFZ, FAA LID: FFZ) is a public airport located five miles (8 km) northeast of the central business district (CBD) of Mesa, a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Falcon Field is assigned FFZ^[1] by the FAA and MSC^[2] by the IATA. The airport's ICAO identifier is KFFZ^[2]^[3].

1 History
2 Facilities
3 Airlines
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

Falcon Field was founded in 1941 as a flight training facility for cadets in the British Royal Air Force. It was operated by an American contractor, using Stearman PT-17 biplanes and North American Aviation AT-6 Harvard monoplane trainers. The good weather, wide-open desert terrain, and lack of enemy airpower provided significantly safer and more efficient training than was possible in England. Even so, more than two dozen cadets were killed in training and are now buried in the Mesa city cemetery. Several thousand pilots were trained until the RAF installation was closed at the end of World War II. Since then it has been a civilian airfield, and is now owned and operated by the City of Mesa. The Commemorative Air Force bases its Arizona Wing there, and has a museum on the grounds.