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Shelby–Cleveland County Regional Airport covers an area of 225 acres (91 ha) at an elevation of 847 feet (258 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 5/23 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,001 by 100 feet (1,524 x 30 m).
Specialty military air operations are located at this facility, as the installation has two usable landing fields, and plans for a third. The FAA Charlotte Sectional Aeronautical Chart identifies this area as Special Use Airspace R-5301, which is continuously restricted from general aviation traffic from the surface to an altitude of 14,000 feet above Mean Sea Level.
This is a list of airports in North Carolina (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.
FAA-Terminal Area Chart Baltimore-Washington from 2011. Like the VFR sectional charts that they complement, terminal area charts depict topographic features and other information of interest to aviators flying visually, including major landmarks, terrain elevations, visual navigation routes, ground-based navigation aids, airports, rivers, cities, and airspace boundaries.
The Foothills Regional Airport covers an area of 1,170 acres (473 ha) and contains one grooved asphalt paved runway: 3/21 measuring 5,500 ft × 75 ft (1,676 m × 23 m). For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2005, the airport had 17,000 aircraft operations, an average of 46 per day: 97% general aviation and 3% military. There were 74 ...
The parking area was expanded in 2000. [13] In 2009, the airport was again renamed Western Carolina Regional Airport. [8] In 2017, the airport terminal was named after local US Navy aviation veteran and longtime airport manager, Mr. Richard Parker. [14] 1947 Western Carolina Regional Airport Richard Parker Airport Terminal
In the late 1950s, Cuyahoga County hired an engineering firm to develop a master plan for the future of the airport. The plan, created in 1956, called for two runways, hangar facilities and other service area developments for private and business aviation. Shortly thereafter, major expansion of the County Airport began. [5]
According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, it is a general aviation airport [2] (it had previously been a reliever airport [3]). Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA , this airport is assigned IPJ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.