Falcon Field (Arizona)

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Coordinates: 33°27′39″N 111°43′42″W / 33.46083, -111.72833

Falcon Field
IATA: MSC – ICAO: KFFZ – FAA: FFZ
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of Mesa
Location Mesa, Arizona
Elevation AMSL 1,394 ft / 425 m
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
4L/22R 3,799 1,158 Asphalt
4R/22L 5,101 1,555 Asphalt
Helipads
Number Length Surface
ft m
H1 60 18 Asphalt
H2 60 18 Asphalt
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations 270,084
Based aircraft 988
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]
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 of Mesa, a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.[1] According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007-2011, it is categorized as a reliever airport.[2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Falcon Field is assigned FFZ by the FAA and MSC by the IATA.[3]

Scheduled service to Bullhead City on Western Express Air was discontinued in January 2007.[4]

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[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.

[edit] Facilities

Falcon Field covers 564 acres (228 ha) and has two runways and two helipads:[1]

  • Runway 4R/22L: 5,101 x 100 ft (1,555 x 30 m), Surface: Asphalt
  • Runway 4L/22R: 3,799 x 75 ft (1,159 x 23 m), Surface: Asphalt
  • Helipad H1: 60 x 60 ft (18 x 18 m), Surface: Asphalt
  • Helipad H2: 60 x 60 ft (18 x 18 m), Surface: Asphalt

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c FAA Airport Master Record for FFZ (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-07-05
  2. ^ FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems: 2007-2011
  3. ^ Great Circle Mapper: MSC / KFFZ - Mesa, Arizona (Falcon Field)
  4. ^ Western Air Express: Press Release, January 2007

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