Jack Edwards Airport

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Coordinates: 30°17′23″N 087°40′18″W / 30.28972, -87.67167

Jack Edwards Airport
IATA: GUF – ICAO: KJKA – FAA: JKA
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of Gulf Shores
Location		Gulf Shores, Alabama
Elevation AMSL		17 ft / 5 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
9/27	6,962	2,122	Asphalt
17/35	3,596	1,096	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			95,501
Based aircraft			133
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Jack Edwards Airport (IATA: GUF, ICAO: KJKA, FAA LID: JKA, formerly AL15) is a small general aviation airport located two miles (3 km) north of the central business district of Gulf Shores, a city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Jack Edwards Airport is assigned JKA by the FAA and GUF by the IATA. ^[2]

1 History
2 Facilities and aircraft
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

Jack Edwards Airport was originally an outlying field for Naval Air Station Pensacola. The U.S. Navy sold it to the state of Alabama in 1977 and the new airport was named for U.S. Rep. Jack Edwards. In 1983 the state sold the airport to the city of Gulf Shores. A new terminal was built in 1998 and a runway extension was completed in 2003.^[3]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Jack Edwards Airport covers an area of 503 acres (204 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 9/27 measuring 6,962 x 100 ft. (2,122 x 30 m) and 17/35 measuring 3,596 x 75 ft. (1,096 x 23 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending March 7, 2006, the airport had 95,501 aircraft operations, an average of 261 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% military. At that time there were 133 aircraft based at this airport: 80% single-engine, 15% multi-engine and 5% jet.^[1]