Fort Worth Alliance Airport
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| IATA: AFW – ICAO: KAFW – FAA: AFW | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner | City of Fort Worth | ||
| Serves | Fort Worth, Texas | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 722 ft / 220 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 16L/34R | 9,600 | 2,926 | Concrete |
| 16R/34L | 8,220 | 2,505 | Concrete |
| Statistics (2007) | |||
| Aircraft operations | 80,332 | ||
| Based aircraft | 124 | ||
| Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] | |||
Fort Worth Alliance Airport (IATA: AFW, ICAO: KAFW, FAA LID: AFW) is a city-owned public-use airport located 14 miles (23 km) north of the central business district of Fort Worth, city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States.[1]
Billed as the world's first purely industrial airport, it was developed in a joint venture between the City of Fort Worth, the Federal Aviation Administration and Hillwood Development Company, a real estate development company owned by H. Ross Perot, Jr. The official groundbreaking ceremonies were held in July 1988, and the airport officially opened on December 14, 1989[2]. The airport is owned by the City of Fort Worth and managed by Alliance Air Services, a subsidiary of Hillwood.
Alliance is a cargo hub for FedEx Express and is a maintenance base of American Airlines.
Alliance filled in for Los Angeles International Airport during the filming of the TV drama LAX.
By the 1990s, the annual passenger air traffic at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport had exceeded the airport's capacity, and a solution was proposed to repeal the Wright Amendment and open Alliance Airport to passenger service, effectively providing DFW with two reliever airports. But DFW opposed the solution and no passenger service was introduced at Alliance Airport.
In April 2004 Alliance Airport operating company Hillwood entered in to a management contract with EP-Team (Energy & Projects Team) for sales and marketing development to attract Cargo Airlines to the airport. EP-Team is a Project Freight/Logistics Management company with its Head Office in Dallas, Texas.[3]
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[edit] Facilities and aircraft
Fort Worth Alliance Airport covers an area of 1,198 acres (485 ha) which contains two concrete paved runways: 16L/34R measuring 9,600 x 150 ft. (2,926 x 46 m) and 16R/34L measuring 8,220 x 150 ft. (2,505 x 46 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2007, the airport had 80,332 aircraft operations, an average of 220 per day: 73% general aviation, 11% scheduled commercial, 8% military and 7% air taxi. At that time there were 124 aircraft based at this airport: 40% single-engine, 18% multi-engine, 11% jet and 31% helicopter.[1]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d FAA Airport Master Record for AFW (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-12-20
- ^ Fort Worth Alliance Airport. Retrieved on June 3, 2007.
- ^ EP-TEAM >Energy & Projects Team<
[edit] External links
- Fort Worth Alliance Airport, official web site
- Alliance Air Services
- Hybrid map and satellite image
- FAA Airport Diagram(PDF), effective 5 June 2008
- Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for KAFW
- ASN accident history for AFW
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for KAFW
- FAA current AFW delay information
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