St. Louis Downtown Airport

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St. Louis Downtown Airport

IATA: CPS – ICAO: KCPS – FAA: CPS
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Bi-State Development Agency
Serves		Greater St. Louis
Location		Cahokia, Illinois
Elevation AMSL		413 ft / 126 m
Coordinates		38°34′15″N 090°09′22″W / 38.57083, -90.15611
Website		StLouisDowntownAirport.com
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
12R/30L	6,997	2,133	Asphalt
12L/30R	3,800	1,158	Concrete
5/23	2,799	853	Asphalt
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations			170,000
Based aircraft			281
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

St. Louis Downtown Airport (IATA: CPS, ICAO: KCPS, FAA LID: CPS) is a public-use airport located in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area, one mile (2 km) east of the central business district of Cahokia, in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. It is owned by the Bi-State Development Agency.^[1]

The St. Louis metropolitan area is also served by Lambert-St. Louis International Airport in St. Louis, Missouri; MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Belleville, Illinois; St. Louis Regional Airport in Alton, Illinois; and Spirit of St. Louis Airport in Chesterfield, Missouri.

1 History
2 Facilities and aircraft
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The airport opened in 1929 as Curtiss-Steinberg Airport. In 1940 it was renamed Curtiss-Parks Airport, followed by Parks Metropolitan Airport later that same year. The airport closed in 1959 and reopened six years later as Bi-State Parks Airport. It was renamed St. Louis Downtown-Parks Airport in 1984 and received its current name in 1999.

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

St. Louis Downtown Airport covers an area of 940 acres (380 ha) which contains three paved runways: 12R/30L measuring 6,997 x 100 ft. (2,133 x 30 m), 12L/30R measuring 3,800 x 75 ft. (1,158 x 23 m) and 5/23 measuring 2,799 x 75 ft. (853 x 23 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending September 30, 2005, the airport had 170,000 aircraft operations, an average of 465 per day: 97% general aviation, 2% air taxi and 1% military. At that time there were 281 aircraft based at this airport: 62% single-engine, 21% multi-engine, 12% jet and 5% helicopter.^[1]

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d FAA Airport Master Record for CPS (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-12-20

[edit] External links

St. Louis Downtown Airport (official web site)
Hybrid map and satellite image
FAA Airport Diagram(PDF), effective 5 June 2008
Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for KCPS
- ASN accident history for CPS
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for KCPS

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Counties	Bond \| Clinton \| Jersey \| Madison \| Monroe \| St. Clair

Major Cities (10,000+)	Alton \| Belleville \| Cahokia \| Centralia \| Collinsville \| East St. Louis \| Edwardsville \| Fairview Heights \| Glen Carbon \| Godfrey \| Granite City \| O'Fallon \| Swansea \| Wood River

Cities (5,000-10,000)	Bethalto \| Centreville \| Columbia \| East Alton \| Greenville \| Highland \| Jerseyville \| Maryville \| Mascoutah \| Pontoon Beach \| Shiloh \| Staunton \| Troy \| Washington Park \| Waterloo

Cities (1,000-5,000)	Alorton \| Aviston \| Beckemeyer \| Breese \| Brighton \| Carlyle \| Caseyville \| Dupo \| Fairmont City \| Freeburg \| Germantown \| Hartford \| Lebanon \| Madison \| Marissa \| Millstadt \| New Athens \| Rosewood Heights \| Roxana \| Smithton \| South Roxana \| Trenton \| Valmeyer \| Venice \| Wamac

Cities (<1,000)	Albers \| Brooklyn \| Elsah \| Fults \| Grafton \| Hecker \| Livingston \| Maeystown \| Pocahontas \| Sauget

Interstates in the Metro-East	I-55 \| I-64 \| I-70 \| I-255 \| I-270

Airports/Military Bases	Scott AFB \| Mid-America St. Louis Airport \| St. Louis Regional Airport \| St. Louis Downtown Airport \| St. Louis Metro-East Airport

Sports teams based in the Metro East	Gateway Grizzlies (baseball, Frontier League)