John H. Batten Airport

Coordinates: 42°45′38″N 087°48′55″W / 42.76056°N 87.81528°W / 42.76056; -87.81528

John H. Batten Airport
Batten International Airport
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Racine Commercial Airport Corp.
Serves Racine, Wisconsin
Elevation AMSL 674 ft / 205 m
Website www.BattenAirport.aero
Map
RAC
RAC

Location of airport in Wisconsin / United States

Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
4/22 6,574 2,004 Concrete
14/32 4,422 1,348 Asphalt
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2015) 47,000
Based aircraft (2017) 89

John H. Batten Airport (IATA: RAC, ICAO: KRAC, FAA LID: RAC), also known as Batten International Airport, is a public use airport located 2 miles (3 km; 2 nmi) northwest of the central business district of Racine, a city in Racine County, Wisconsin, United States, North America. It is privately owned by the Racine Commercial Airport Corporation.[1] It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a reliever general aviation facility.[2]

History

The airport was founded in 1941 by Carlyle Godske on roughly 160 acres (65 ha) of land purchased from local businessman J.A. Horlick. For most of its history, the airport was known as Racine-Horlick Field, but on September 5, 1989, the name was changed to John H. Batten Field. John H. Batten was one of the airport's early founders and supporters as well as the longtime CEO of Racine's Twin Disc, Inc.[3]

During World War II (ca 1941-1945), the newly established airport was used as a flight and ground school for the Army. Students were housed at Racine College on the south side of Racine. Ground school instruction was given at Horlick High School and the actual flight training took place at the airport. Today, the airport is used primarily by local aviation enthusiasts and by the corporate jets of large local companies such as S.C. Johnson & Son and Twin Disc, Inc.[3]

Facilities and aircraft

On July 30, 2010, plans were announced to have a full-time aviation maintenance firm on the field, planned to have opened on September 1, 2010.[4]

John H. Batten Airport covers an area of 467 acres (189 ha), including two paved runways:[1]

For the 12-month period ending August 4, 2015, the airport had 47,000 aircraft operations, an average of 129 per day: 96% general aviation and 4% air taxi. In July 2017, there were 89 aircraft based at this airport: 69 single-engine, 14 multi-engine, 5 jet and 1 helicopter.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for RAC (Form 5010 PDF), effective July 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ "List of NPIAS Airports" (PDF). FAA.gov. Federal Aviation Administration. 21 October 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  3. 1 2 UW-Parkside Archives, John Sullivan Collection, MC 011
  4. ↑ Burke, Michael (2010-07-30). Aviation maintenance firm coming to Batten Airport. Journal Times, 30 July 2010. Retrieved from http://www.journaltimes.com/news/local/article_3b728e8e-9c12-11df-94b5-001cc4c002e0.html.
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