Perryville Regional Airport Explained

Perryville Regional Airport
Icao:KPCD
Faa:PCD (formerly K02)
Type:Public
Owner:City of Perryville
City-Served:Perryville, Missouri
Location:Perry County, Missouri, near Chester, Illinois
Elevation-F:372
Elevation-M:113
Pushpin Map:Missouri
Pushpin Mapsize:250
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Perryville Municipal Airport
Pushpin Label:PCD
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
R1-Number:2/20
R1-Length-F:7,003
R1-Length-M:2,135
R1-Surface:Concrete
Stat-Year:2008
Stat1-Header:Aircraft operations
Stat1-Data:5,900
Stat2-Header:Based aircraft
Stat2-Data:9
Footnotes:Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Perryville Regional Airport (also known as McBride Airport / Perryville Municipal Airport) is a city-owned public-use airport located nine nautical miles (17 km) north of the central business district of Perryville, a city in Perry County, Missouri, United States.

Facilities and aircraft

Perryville Regional Airport covers an area of 351acres at an elevation of 372 feet (113 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 2/20 with a concrete surface measuring 7,003 by 100 feet (2,135 x 30 m).

For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2011, the airport had 5,900 total aircraft operations, an average of 16 per day: 86% general aviation, 8% military and 5% air taxi. At that time there were nine aircraft based at this airport: eight single-engine and one helicopter.

History

The airport was built in 1942 by the United States Army Air Forces as a primary (stage 1) pilot training airfield assigned to AAF Flying Training Command, Southeast Training Center (later Eastern Flying Training Command). It was named Chester Army Airfield and consisted of two parallel 2000' runways aligned NNE/SSW (02/20).

Flight training was provided by Anderson Air Activities to the aviation cadets assigned to the airfield and Fairchild PT-19s were the primary trainer used. Pilot training at the airfield apparently ended on 30 May 1944, with the drawdown of AAFTC's pilot training program. The airfield was turned over to civil control at the end of the war though the War Assets Administration (WAA).

The name of Perryville Regional Airport and ICAO codes were changed from Perryville Municipal Airport and K02 on March 2, 2017.

See also

References

  1. , effective 2009-07-02.

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