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Frederick Municipal Airport (Maryland)

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Airport type
  
Public

Location
  
Frederick, Maryland

5/23
  
5,220

Elevation
  
92 m

Owner
  
City of Frederick

Elevation AMSL
  
303 ft / 92 m

Code
  
FDK

Phone
  
+1 301-600-2201

Frederick Municipal Airport (Maryland)

Website
  
http://www.cityoffrederick.com/index.aspx?nid=152

Address
  
310 Aviation Way, Frederick, MD 21701, USA

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Frederick Municipal Airport (IATA: FDK, ICAO: KFDK, FAA LID: FDK) is a public airport located in the city of Frederick, in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. This airport is publicly owned by City of Frederick.

Contents

Frederick Municipal Airport (FDK) is classified as a general aviation airport. According to analysis, FDK experienced approximately 129,000 operations in 2004 with increases to about 165,000 by 2025.

Facilities

In October 2010, Frederick Municipal Airport received 4.8 million dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to build and staff a control tower at the airport. Work commenced Oct 2010 and an air traffic control tower, with accompanying Class D airspace, was commissioned May 1, 2012.

Runways

FDK maintains two paved runways: the primary runway, Runway 5-23, which is 5,220 feet in length and 100 feet in width, and Runway 12-30, which is 3,600 feet in length and 75 feet in width.

Plans for the airfield include upgrading the existing runway 5/23 to 6,000 feet in length, 12/30 to 3,750 feet, and adding a third turf runway with 2,400 feet. In keeping up with increased growth of corporate and personal aircraft in the Frederick area, the airport has also planned for increased hangar storage.

Frederick Municipal Airport currently covers an area of 588 acres (238 ha) and contains two runways:

  • Runway 5/23: 5,220 x 100 ft (1,591 x 30 m), Surface: Asphalt
  • Runway 12/30: 3,600 x 75 ft (1,097 x 23 m), Surface: Asphalt

    • On field

  • Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) headquarters
  • Fuel: 100LL, Jet-A
  • Aircraft sales
  • Aircraft maintenance
  • Oxygen
  • Pilot lounge and supplies
  • Airways Inn restaurant- Airways Inn
  • Flight school and rental- Bravo Flight Training Frederick Flight Center
  • Helicopter Flight school and rental- Advanced Helicopter Concepts

    • Off field

  • Fractured Prune Donut Shoppe: 0.5 mi (0.80 km)
  • Dutch's Daughter restaurant: 8 mi (13 km)
  • Courtyard by Marriott: 5 mi (8.0 km)
  • Hampton Inn: 5 mi (8.0 km)

    • The Frederick Municipal Airport, called Frederick Field in the movie, is featured in the 1996 action film Executive Decision starring Kurt Russell, though the airport filmed is not Frederick Municipal Airport.

    History

    Frederick Municipal Airport was constructed starting on 26 March 1946. The airport opened on 17 April 1946 with the arrival of a Stinson aircraft. The airport became the home of the Experimental Aircraft Association East coast fly-in in 1970.

    References

    Frederick Municipal Airport (Maryland) Wikipedia
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