Blairsville Airport Explained

Blairsville Airport
Icao:KDZJ
Faa:DZJ
Type:Public
Owner:City of Blairsville
City-Served:Blairsville, Georgia
Elevation-F:1,911
Coordinates:34.8544°N -83.9972°W
Website:http://www.blairsville-ga.gov/airport.html...
R1-Number:8/26
R1-Length-F:5,020
R1-Surface:Asphalt
Stat-Year:2011
Stat1-Header:Aircraft operations
Stat1-Data:21,000
Stat2-Header:Based aircraft
Stat2-Data:48
Footnotes:Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Blairsville Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Blairsville, a city in Union County, Georgia, United States. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation airport.[2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned DZJ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.[3]

Facilities and aircraft

Blairsville Airport covers an area of 156 acres (63 ha) at an elevation of 1,911 feet (582 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 8/26 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,020 by 100 feet (1,526 x 30 m).

For the 12-month period ending June 29, 2011, the airport had 21,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 57 per day. At that time there were 48 aircraft based at this airport: 83% single-engine, 10% multi-engine, 2% jet, 2% helicopter, and 2% glider.

See also

References

  1. . Federal Aviation Administration. Effective April 5, 2012.
  2. Web site: 2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A . PDF, 2.03 MB . National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems . Federal Aviation Administration . October 4, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120927084535/http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/reports/media/2011/npias_2011_appA.pdf . 2012-09-27 .
  3. Web site: Blairsville, Georgia (ICAO: KDZJ, FAA: DZJ, IATA: none) . Great Circle Mapper . June 25, 2012.

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