Brandywine Airport

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Brandywine Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KOQN – FAA: OQN
Summary
Airport type		Public-use
Owner		New Brandywine Airport Club, Inc.
Serves		West Chester, Pennsylvania
Elevation AMSL		466 ft / 142 m
Coordinates		39°59′24″N 075°34′55″W / 39.99, -75.58194
Website		n99.com
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
9/27	3,347	1,020	Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations			60,065
Based aircraft			133
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Brandywine Airport (ICAO: KOQN, FAA LID: OQN, formerly N99) is a public-use airport located three miles (5 km) northeast of the central business district of West Chester, in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is privately owned by New Brandywine Airport Club Inc.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Brandywine Airport is assigned OQN by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[2]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Brandywine Airport covers an area of 44 acres (18 ha) and contains one runway designated 9/27 with a 3,347 x 50 ft. (1,020 x 15 m) asphalt pavement. For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2007, the airport had 60,065 aircraft operations, an average of 164 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% air taxi. At that time there were 133 aircraft based at this airport: 94% single-engine, 2% multi-engine and 5% helicopter.^[1]