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Airport type
  
Public use

Operator
  
PennAirways, INC

Elevation AMSL
  
309 ft / 94 m

Elevation
  
94 m

Owner
  
Limerick Aviation LP

Location
  
Limerick Township

Code
  
PTW

Heritage Field Airport

Serves
  
Pottstown, Pennsylvania

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Heritage Field (IATA: PTW, ICAO: KPTW, FAA LID: PTW) is a public use airport in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located three nautical miles (6 km) east of Pottstown, in Limerick Township. The airport is privately owned by Limerick Aviation LP.

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Previously known as Pottstown Limerick Airport, the airport was sold in 2009 by its former owner, the Exelon Generation Company, which also owns the nearby Limerick Nuclear Power Plant. It is now referred as Heritage Field on the local UNICOM.

This is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation reliever airport.

Facilities and aircraft

Heritage Field covers an area of 220 acres (89 ha) at an elevation of 309 feet (94 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 10/28 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,371 by 75 feet (1,027 x 23 m).

Penn Airways is a fixed-base operator located on the field.

For the 12-month period ending November 3, 2011, the airport had 37,217 aircraft operations, an average of 101 per day: 83% general aviation, 17% air taxi, and <1% military. At that time there were 91 aircraft based at this airport: 86% single-engine, 9% multi-engine, 2% jet, 1% helicopter, 1% glider, and 1% ultralight.

References

Heritage Field Airport Wikipedia