Hamilton Municipal Airport (New York) Explained

Hamilton Municipal Airport
Icao:KVGC
Faa:VGC
Type:Public
Owner:Village of Hamilton
City-Served:Hamilton, New York
Elevation-F:1,137
Coordinates:42.8433°N -75.5611°W
Pushpin Map:USA New York
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of airport in New York
Pushpin Label:VGC
Pushpin Label Position:right
R1-Number:17/35
R1-Length-F:5,314
R1-Surface:Asphalt
Stat-Year:2019
Stat1-Header:Aircraft operations
Stat1-Data:17,310
Stat2-Header:Based aircraft
Stat2-Data:46
Footnotes:Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Hamilton Municipal Airport, opened in 1963, is a village-owned, public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northeast of the central business district of Hamilton, a village in the Town of Hamilton, Madison County, New York, United States.

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

Facilities and aircraft

Hamilton Municipal Airport covers an area of 180acres at an elevation of 1,137 feet (347 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 17/35 with a grooved asphalt surface measuring 5,314 by 75 feet (1,620 x 23 m) and a full-length taxiway. The airport is illuminated for night flying by pilot-controlled lighting (PCL), activated on the 122.7 MHz frequency (medium-intensity edge lighting and runway end indicator lights). Precision approach path indicators are available for visual approaches in both directions. Automated weather advisories, from an AWOS-3 device, are continuously broadcast on 119.42 MHz.

Fuel (100LL Avgas and Jet A) is available during the airport's opening hours of 0900-1700 local, seven days a week.

For the 12-month period ending May 23, 2019, the airport had 17,310 aircraft operations, an average of 47 per day: 99.9% general aviation and 0.1% military. At that time there were 46 aircraft based at this airport: 92% single-engine, 4% multi-engine, and 4% gliders.

See also

References

  1. . Federal Aviation Administration. Effective July 29, 2010.
  2. Web site: Hamilton Municipal Airport (FAA: VGC, ICAO: KVGC) . Great Circle Mapper . August 15, 2010.

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