Airport type Public Elevation AMSL 81 ft / 25 m 4,200 1,280 Code WSH Phone +1 631-281-5100 | 6/24 4,200 1,280 Asphalt Elevation 25 m Owner Brookhaven | |
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Address 135 Dawn Dr, Shirley, NY 11967, USA | ||
May 29 2013 westbound departure from brookhaven airport
Brookhaven Calabro Airport (IATA: WSH, ICAO: KHWV, FAA LID: HWV) is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) north of the central business district of Shirley, in Suffolk County, New York, United States. This airport is publicly owned by the Town of Brookhaven. The airport contact information, description, list of fixed-base operators and other tenants is maintained on the Town of Brookhaven's webpage for the Division of Aviation / Department of General Services."Brookhaven Calabro Airport".
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Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Brookhaven Airport is assigned HWV by the FAA and WSH by the IATA. The airport's ICAO identifier is KHWV.
History
Brookhaven Airport was constructed during World War II to provide logistical support for U.S. Army Air Corps operations. Known as Mastic Flight Strip, title of the airport was transferred to New York State after the war. In 1961 the airport was acquired by the Town of Brookhaven. It was later renamed in honor of Dr. Frank Calabro, an important figure in the airport's development.
Facilities and aircraft
Brookhaven Airport covers an area of 795 acres (3.2 km²) which contains two runways:
For 12-month period ending March 25, 2005, the airport had 135,100 aircraft operations, an average of 370 per day: 99% general aviation (135,000) and <1% military (100). There are 217 aircraft based at this airport: 92% single engine (200), 5% multi engine (10) and 3% gliders (5).
Dowling College operates at Brookhaven Airport its School of Aviation which offers bachelor's degrees in Aerospace Systems Technology and Aviation Management and it participates in the FAA Air Traffic Control Collegiate Training Initiative (AT-CTI). Flight instruction leads to a variety of FAA Private, Commercial, and Instructor certificates, as well as Instrument and Multi-Engine ratings. Dowling maintains several Frasca flight simulators and a small fleet of its own airplanes.