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Alliance Airport was an occasional source of friction between the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth prior to the repeal of Wright Amendment, which imposed long-distance flight restrictions at Dallas Love Field after non-compete clauses in the 1968 DFW Concurrent Bond Ordinance signed by Dallas and Fort Worth failed to stop Southwest Airlines from ...
By the mid-1960s, Fort Worth was getting 1% of Texas air traffic while Dallas was getting 49%, which led to the virtual abandonment of GSW. The joint airport proposal was revisited in 1961 after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) refused to invest more money into separate Dallas and Fort Worth airports. While airline service had steeply ...
For other airports that serve the area but lie outside the city limits, see Airports in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. Pages in category "Airports in Fort Worth, Texas" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
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Fort Worth Meacham International Airport (Meacham Field) (IATA: FTW, ICAO: KFTW, FAA LID: FTW) is a general aviation airport located near the intersection of Interstate 820 and Business U.S. Highway 287 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It is named after former Fort Worth Mayor Henry C. Meacham. [2] The airport covers 745 acres (301 ha). [1]
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It was 1973, and Grapevine Mayor William Tate was 31 and the Metroplex was home to the new Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. Tate boarded a plane with other officials from Tarrant County and took flight.
Fort Worth Spinks Airport covers an area of 822 acres (333 ha) at an elevation of 700 feet (213 m) above mean sea level.It has two runways: 18R/36L is 6,002 by 100 feet (1,829 x 30 m) with an asphalt surface; 18L/36R is 3,660 by 60 feet (1,116 x 18 m) with a turf surface.