Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial Airport

Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial Airport
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of Abbeville
Serves Abbeville, Louisiana
Elevation AMSL 16 ft / 5 m
Coordinates 29°58′33″N 092°05′03″W / 29.97583°N 92.08417°W / 29.97583; -92.08417
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
16/34 5,000 1,524 Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Aircraft operations 92,345
Based aircraft 63

Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial Airport (ICAO: KIYA, FAA LID: IYA, formerly 0R3) is a city-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (4 mi, 6 km) east of the central business district of Abbeville, a city in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States.[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned IYA by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.[2]

Facilities and aircraft

Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial Airport covers an area of 216 acres (87 ha) at an elevation of 16 feet (5 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 16/34 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,000 by 75 feet (1,524 x 23 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending July 14, 2010, the airport had 92,345 aircraft operations, an average of 253 per day: 53% air taxi, 46% general aviation and 1% military. At that time there were 63 aircraft based at this airport: 44% single-engine, 5% multi-engine, 3% jet, 43% helicopter, 2% glider and 3% ultralight.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for IYA (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 25 August 2011.
  2. ↑ "Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial Airport (IYA)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
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