Airport type Public Elevation AMSL 172 ft / 52 m 4/22 4,552 Elevation 53 m | Website www.FlyCDW.com Code CDW Phone +1 973-227-4567 | |
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Address 27 Wright Way, Fairfield, NJ 07004, USA |
Cessna 172 landing at caldwell essex county airport
Essex County Airport (IATA: CDW, ICAO: KCDW, FAA LID: CDW), informally "Caldwell Airport", is a public use airport located in Fairfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey, two nautical miles (4 km) north of the central business district of Caldwell, a borough of northwestern Essex County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is owned by the Essex County Improvement Authority. This facility is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation reliever airport.
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- Cessna 172 landing at caldwell essex county airport
- Flight from stewart international swf to essex county airport cdw
- History
- Facilities and aircraft
- Accidents
- References
Flight from stewart international swf to essex county airport cdw
History
In April 1929 Essex Airport Corporation was formed by Walter Marvin and six other individuals. The intention of the company was to open an airport to serve Montclair, New Jersey, a town seven miles (11 km) away. The tract of land that Essex Airport Corporation intended for the airport was the Fairfield Dairy Company land that had also been used during World War I as a temporary airfield for the Naval Rifle Range which had been located along the Passaic River in Pine Brook. Some of the early references to airport have the designation “Marvin Airport”, named after Walter Marvin.
The airport gained national attention when John F. Kennedy, Jr., who based his private aircraft there, crashed hours after departing the airport en route for Martha's Vineyard Airport with his wife and sister-in-law on July 16, 1999.
Facilities and aircraft
Essex County Airport covers an area of 275 acres (111 ha) at an elevation of 172 feet (52 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways with asphalt surfaces: 4/22 is 4,552 by 80 feet (1,387 x 24 m) and 10/28 is 3,719 by 75 feet (1,134 x 23 m).
For the 12-month period ending November 30, 2012, the airport had 74,459 aircraft operations, an average of about 200 per day: 97% general aviation, 1% air taxi and 1% military. Around that time there were 197 aircraft based at this airport: 81% single-engine, 16% multi-engine and 1.5% each jets and helicopters.
The weather station reports are commonly identified as "Caldwell".