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Airport type
  
Public

17R/35L
  
6,014

Elevation
  
413 m

Owner
  
City of Oklahoma City

Elevation AMSL
  
1,354 ft / 413 m

6,014
  
1,833

Phone
  
+1 405-789-4061

Clarence E. Page Municipal Airport

Serves
  
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Location
  
Oklahoma City, Canadian County, Oklahoma, USA

Address
  
2300 N Cimarron Rd, Yukon, OK 73099, USA

Similar
  
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Clarence E. Page Municipal Airport (ICAO: KRCE, FAA LID: RCE, formerly F29) is a city-owned public-use airport located in Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States. It is 15 nautical miles (28 km) west of the central business district of Oklahoma City, but still within its city limits. This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (2009–2013), which categorizes it as a general aviation airport.

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Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned RCE by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned RCE to Roche Harbor Seaplane Base in Washington.).

Facilities and aircraft

Clarence E. Page Municipal Airport covers an area of 1,000 acres (400 ha) at an elevation of 1,354 feet (413 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways with concrete surfaces: 17R/35L is 6,014 by 100 feet (1,833 x 30 m) and 17L/35R is 3,502 by 75 feet (1,067 x 23 m).

For the 12-month period ending July 2, 2008, the airport had 25,000 aircraft operations, an average of 68 per day, all of which were general aviation. At that time there were 52 aircraft based at this airport: 73% single-engine, 2% multi-engine, 6% helicopter and 19% ultralight.

History

Opened in October, 1941, the airport conducted contract basic flying training for the United States Army Air Forces. Known as Cimarron Field, the wartime airport had five grass runways, with the runways being changed at various times, with three auxiliary airfields used for emergency and overflow landings/takeoffs. The contractor was Oklahoma Air College, Inc. Flying training was performed with Fairchild PT-19s as the primary trainer. Also had several PT-17 Stearmans and a few P-40 Warhawks assigned.

Inactivated on 27 June 1944 with the drawdown of AAFTC's pilot training program. The airfield was turned over to civil control at the end of the war though the War Assets Administration (WAA).

This airport hosted the 18th World Aerobatic Championship from 18th to 30th August, 1996.

References

Clarence E. Page Municipal Airport Wikipedia