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Based aircraft. 240. Source: Federal Aviation Administration [ 1 ] Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport ( IATA: BTR, ICAO: KBTR, FAA LID: BTR ), also known as Ryan Field, is a public use airport located four miles (7 km) north of the central business district of Baton Rouge, a city in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States.
This is a list of airports in Louisiana (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Baton Rouge ( / ˌbætənˈruːʒ / ⓘ BAT-ən ROOZH; French: Baton Rouge or Bâton-Rouge, pronounced [bɑtɔ̃ ʁuʒ]; Louisiana Creole: Batonrouj) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it had a population of 227,470 as of 2020 [update]; [ 4 ] it is the seat of Louisiana's ...
U.S. Highway 90 ( US 90 ), one of the major east–west U.S. Highways in the Southern United States, runs through southern Louisiana for 297.6 miles (478.9 km), serving Lake Charles, Lafayette, New Iberia, Morgan City, and New Orleans. Much of it west of Lafayette and east of New Orleans has been supplanted by Interstate 10 (I-10) for all but ...
Founded in 1998 by Kevin Teasley, the Greater Education Opportunities (GEO) Academies (also known as GEO Foundation), operates network of eight charter schools [1] in Gary and Indianapolis, Indiana and in the Baton Rouge area of Louisiana, serving 4,100 predominantly African-American and low-income students of grades K-12.
Airline Highway is a divided highway in the U.S. state of Louisiana, built in stages between 1925 and 1953 to bypass the older Jefferson Highway. It runs 115.6 miles (186.0 km), [1] carrying U.S. Highway 61 from New Orleans northwest to Baton Rouge and U.S. Highway 190 from Baton Rouge west over the Mississippi River on the Huey P. Long Bridge.
Gary Plauché. Leon Gary Plauché (November 10, 1945 – October 20, 2014) was an American man known for publicly killing Jeffrey Doucet, a child molester who had kidnapped and raped Plauché's son, Jody. Plauché shot and killed Doucet as he was being escorted through an airport by law enforcement to face trial for what he had done to Plauché ...
The state of Louisiana is served by the following area codes: 225, which serves the Baton Rouge area and parts of south central Louisiana. 318, which serves northern Louisiana. 337, which serves southwestern Louisiana. 504, which serves the New Orleans area. 985, which serves the sections of southeast Louisiana which are not within the 504 area ...