Fulton County Airport (Georgia)

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Fulton County Airport (Charlie Brown Field)
IATA: FTY - ICAO: KFTY
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Fulton County
Serves		Atlanta, Georgia
Elevation AMSL		841 ft (256.3 m)
Coordinates		33° 46' 44.9" N 84° 31' 16.9" W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
8/26	5,796	1,767	Asphalt
14/32	4,157	1,267	Asphalt
9/27	2,801	854	Asphalt

For other airports with this name, see Fulton County Airport.

Fulton County Airport at Charlie Brown Field (IATA: FTY, ICAO: KFTY) is a local airport located just west of Atlanta, and run by Fulton County of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the nearest airport to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (which is just south of Atlanta), and handles much of the general aviation traffic that would otherwise go there.

It is located very near Interstate 20, Interstate 285, and the Chattahoochee River, just outside the Atlanta city limits. It reports ASOS weather conditions 24 hours per day as West Atlanta. It also acts as the nearest backup station when Dobbins Air Reserve Base does not report overnight.

Its name comes not from Charlie Brown, the principal character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, but from the nickname for former Atlanta politician Charles M. Brown, who served on the city council and county commission during the 1960s. It is also called Charlie Brown Airport or Brown Field (not to be mistaken for the word "brownfield").

The “hundred dollar hamburger” is a widely recognized term in the aviation industry, referring to the “fly in” restaurants at or near general aviation airports. Fulton County Airport is host of one such place with the busy "Flight Deck Cafe" located in the main terminal building serving Southern-style food to a lunch-time crowd of locals, pilots and airport personnel.