Newport State Airport (Rhode Island)

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Coordinates: 41°31′57″N 071°16′54″W / 41.5325, -71.28167

Newport State Airport
IATA: NPT – ICAO: KUUU – FAA: UUU
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Rhode Island Airport Corp.
Serves		Newport, Rhode Island
Location		Middletown, Rhode Island
Elevation AMSL		172 ft / 52 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
4/22	2,999	914	Asphalt
16/34	2,623	799	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			20,025
Based aircraft			40
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Newport State Airport (IATA: NPT, ICAO: KUUU, FAA LID: UUU) is a public airport located in Middletown, Rhode Island, two miles (3 km) northeast of the central business district of Newport, a city in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States.^[1] There is no scheduled airline service available, but it once was served by Air New England.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Newport State Airport is assigned UUU by the FAA and NPT by the IATA (which assigned UUU to Manumu, Papua-New Guinea).^[2]^[3]

Newport State Airport is one of six active airports operated by the Rhode Island Airport Corporation. The other five airports include T.F. Green State Airport, North Central State Airport, Westerly State Airport, Quonset State Airport, and Block Island State Airport.

1 History
2 Facilities and aircraft
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The airport site was acquired by the state in July 1960, and construction of the runways and taxiways was completed by September 1967. At least one runway was operational by July 1964, when the first aircraft accident at the Newport airport (a gear-up landing) was documented by the National Transportation Safety Board. The first fatal accident at Newport State Airport was a mid-air collision between two general aviation aircraft on April 23, 1969.

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Newport State Airport covers an area of 221 acres (89 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 4/22 measuring 2,999 x 75 ft. (914 x 23 m) and 16/34 measuring 2,623 x 75 ft. (799 x 23 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending June 13, 2006, the airport had 20,025 aircraft operations, an average of 54 per day: 97% general aviation, 2% air taxi and <1% military. There are 40 aircraft based at this airport: 80% single engine, 15% multi-engine and 5% helicopters.^[1]