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New Castle Municipal Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

Elevation AMSL
  
1,070 ft / 326 m

Address
  
New Castle, PA 16101, USA

Elevation
  
326 m

Location
  
Union Township

5/23
  
3,995

Code
  
UCP

New Castle Municipal Airport

Owner
  
Lawrence County Airport Authority

Serves
  
New Castle, Pennsylvania

Similar
  
Haski Aviation - Inc, City of New Castle, New Castle Police Departme, City Property, Union Township Police De

New Castle Municipal Airport (ICAO: KUCP, FAA LID: UCP) is a small municipal airport located in Union Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania serving Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Union Township is an outskirt of New Castle, Pennsylvania hence the name. The airport is located four nautical miles (7 km) northwest of the central business district of New Castle. The airport is a public-owned airport and is controlled by the Lawrence County Airport Authority.

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This airport is assigned a three-letter location identifier of UCP by the Federal Aviation Administration, but it does not have an International Air Transport Association (IATA) airport code.

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Facilities and aircraft

New Castle Municipal Airport covers an area of 320 acres (130 ha) at an elevation of 1,070 feet (326 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 5/23 is 3,995 by 75 feet (1,218 x 23 m) and 13/31 is 2,745 by 100 feet (837 x 30 m).

The airport's fixed-base operator (FBO) is Haski Aviation.

For the 12-month period ending February 28, 2009, the airport had 35,357 aircraft operations, an average of 96 per day: 97% general aviation, 3% air taxi and <1% military. At that time there were 58 aircraft based at this airport: 96% single-engine, 2% multi-engine and 2% helicopter.

References

New Castle Municipal Airport Wikipedia