Shelby County Airport (Alabama)

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Coordinates: 33°10′37″N 086°46′58″W / 33.17694, -86.78278

Shelby County Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KEET – FAA: EET
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Shelby County
Location		Alabaster, Alabama
Elevation AMSL		587 ft / 179 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
15/33	5,000	1,524	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			20,848
Based aircraft			84
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Shelby County Airport (ICAO: KEET, FAA LID: EET, formerly 21A) is a county-owned public-use airport located in Calera, four miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district of the city of Alabaster, in Shelby County, Alabama, 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, Shelby County Airport is assigned EET by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[3]

1 Facilities and aircraft
2 Accidents
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Shelby County Airport covers an area of 125 acres (51 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (15/33) measuring 5,000 x 75 ft. (1,524 x 23 m). For 12-month period ending January 4, 2006, the airport had 20,848 aircraft operations, an average of 57 per day: 99% general aviation and 1% military. At that time there were 84 aircraft based at this airport: 85% single-engine and 15% multi-engine.^[1] It is the first Reliever Airport with 19 employees.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Accidents

On September 23, 2006, a Beechcraft Bonanza F-33 crashed just before the start of an airshow. The pilot was giving rides to the public and had two passengers aboard. All aboard were killed. The passengers included a father and his 11-year-old son.^[4]