Dallas Bay Skypark

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Coordinates: 35°11′15″N 085°10′40″W / 35.1875, -85.17778

Dallas Bay Skypark
IATA: none – ICAO: none – FAA: 1A0
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		John F. Flewellen, Inc.
Serves		Chattanooga, Tennessee
Location		Hixson, Tennessee
Elevation AMSL		690 ft / 210 m
Website		www.flydallasbay.com
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
5/23	3,025	922	Asphalt
Statistics (1998)
Aircraft operations			10,108
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Dallas Bay Skypark (FAA LID: 1A0) is a public-use airport located 11 miles (18 km) north of the central business district of Chattanooga, in Hixson, Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States.^[1]

1 History
2 Facilities and aircraft
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

Dallas Bay Skypark began life as the Optimist Club Drag Strip back in the late 50s and survived until the early 60s. The dragstrip was moved to East Ridge, TN and John Flewellyn and his family bought the old dragstrip and turned it into a private runway. In the early 1970s the airstrip became an FAA certified public airport with the designation 1A0.

In 2002, a group of investors, all with a passion for flying, bought Dallas Bay Skypark and have been running it ever since. The airport is still a full-service public airport with a flight school on premises.

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Dallas Bay Skypark covers an area of 60 acres (24 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (5/23) measuring 3,025 x 50 ft. (922 x 15 m). For the 12-month period ending May 4, 1998, the airport had 10,108 aircraft operations, 100% of which were general aviation.^[1]