New Market Airport Explained

New Market Airport
Faa:8W2
Type:Public
Owner:Robert Thomas
City-Served:New Market, Virginia
Elevation-F:975
Elevation-M:297
Coordinates:38.6556°N -78.7081°W
R1-Number:6/24
R1-Length-F:2,920
R1-Length-M:890
R1-Surface:Asphalt
Stat-Year:2009
Stat1-Header:Aircraft operations
Stat1-Data:15,413
Stat2-Header:Based aircraft
Stat2-Data:27
Footnotes:Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

New Market Airport is a privately owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) west of the central business district of New Market, a town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. The facility serves primarily general aviation for the areas around New Market. The facility is also the base for a skydiving operation—Skydive Shenandoah—and arriving aircraft should be sure to check if skydiving operations are in progress on Unicom frequency 122.80. Skydiving Operations are intensive on weekends throughout the year.

Facilities and aircraft

New Market Airport covers an area of 44acres at an elevation of 975 feet (297 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 6/24 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,920 by 60 feet (890 x 18 m).

For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2009, the airport had 15,413 aircraft operations, an average of 42 per day: 99.3% general aviation and 0.7% military. At that time there were 27 aircraft based at this airport: 93% single-engine and 7% multi-engine.

See also

References

  1. . Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 3 June 2010.

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