New Braunfels Municipal Airport

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Coordinates: 29°42′16″N 098°02′32″W / 29.70444, -98.04222

New Braunfels Municipal Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KBAZ – FAA: BAZ
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of New Braunfels
Serves		New Braunfels, Texas
Elevation AMSL		651 ft / 198 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
13/31	5,352	1,631	Asphalt
17/35	5,364	1,635	Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations			26,000
Based aircraft			145
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

New Braunfels Municipal Airport (ICAO: KBAZ, FAA LID: BAZ) is a public-use airport located in Guadalupe County, Texas, United States. It is four miles (6 km) east of the central business district of the City of New Braunfels, which owns this airport.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, New Braunfels Municipal is assigned BAZ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned BAZ to Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil).^[2]^[3]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

New Braunfels Municipal Airport covers an area of 900 acres (364 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 13/31 measuring 5,352 x 100 ft. (1,631 x 30 m) and 17/35 measuring 5,364 x 100 ft. (1,635 x 30 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2007, the airport had 26,000 aircraft operations, an average of 71 per day: 96% general aviation and 4% air taxi. There are 145 aircraft based at this airport: 79% single-engine, 12% multi-engine, 4% jet and 4% helicopter.^[1]