Sierra Sky Park Airport

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Coordinates: 36°50′25″N 119°52′10″W / 36.84028, -119.86944

Sierra Sky Park Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: none – FAA: E79
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Herndon-Doolittle Assc, Inc.
Serves		Fresno, California
Elevation AMSL		321 ft / 98 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
12/30	2,920	890	Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations			12,500
Based aircraft			40
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Sierra Sky Park Airport (FAA LID: E79, formerly Q60) is a privately-owned, public-use airport located seven miles (11 km) northwest of the central business district of Fresno, a city in Fresno County, California, United States.^[1]

Other area airports are Fresno Chandler Executive Airport and Fresno Yosemite International Airport.

1 History
2 Facilities and aircraft
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

Sierra Sky Park was created in 1946 on 130 acres (52 ha) nestled against the San Joaquin River, and is the first residential aviation community in the world. William and Doris Smilie are credited for creating this airport/neighborhood hybrid and in 1953 built the first of the 110 homes in the project.^[2] Residents can land, taxi down extra-wide avenues, and pull up and park in the driveway at home.^[3]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Sierra Sky Park Airport covers an area of 34 acres (14 ha) which contains one runway designated 12/30 with a 2,920 x 50 ft. (890 x 15 m) asphalt pavement. For the 12-month period ending March 29, 2007, the airport had 12,500 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 34 per day. At that time there were 40 aircraft based at this airport: 98% single-engine and 2% multi-engine.^[1]