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Airport type
  
Public

Location
  
Sanford, Maine

7/25
  
6,389

Code
  
SFM

Phone
  
+1 207-324-9173

Owner
  
Town of Sanford

Elevation AMSL
  
244 ft / 74 m

6,389
  
1,947

Elevation
  
74 m

Sanford Seacoast Regional Airport

Address
  
167 Airport Rd, Sanford, ME 04073, USA

Similar
  
Southern Maine Aviation, Sanford Fire Departme, Sanford Vehicle Maintena, Sanford Emergency Prepared, Sanford Economic Develop

Sanford seacoast regional airport


Sanford Seacoast Regional Airport (IATA: SFM, ICAO: KSFM, FAA LID: SFM) is a public airport located four miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district of Sanford, a town in York County, Maine, United States. The airport operated as Sanford Naval Auxiliary Air Facility (NAAF) supporting operations of Naval Air Station Brunswick from 15 April 1943 until 1 February 1946. This airport is now publicly owned by Town of Sanford.

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Facilities and aircraft

Sanford Regional Airport covers an area of 1,115 acres (451 ha) which contains two runways:

  • Runway 7/25: 6,389 x 150 ft (1,947 x 46 m), Surface: Asphalt
  • Runway 14/32: 4,999 x 100 ft (1,524 x 30 m), Surface: Asphalt
  • For 12-month period ending 29 August 2006 the airport had 76,010 aircraft operations, an average of 208 per day: 96% general aviation (72,640), 4% air taxi (3,350) and <1% military (20). There are 78 aircraft based at this airport: 92% single engine (72) and 8% multi engine (6).

    Fixed-Base Operator and Flight Schools

    There is a fixed-base operator (FBO) and several flight schools on the airfield.

    The FBO is Southern Maine Aviation, which has Jet Fuel, Aviation Gasoline (100LL) and MoGas (usually available). They also operate an aircraft maintenance facility, a flight school and have facilities for transient flight crew and passengers.

    There are three flight schools on the field:

  • Southern Maine Aviation provides instruction in single engine airplanes, including a Gobosh, an American Champion Citabria, a Cessna 172M, a pair of Cessna 172-SPs, a complex Cessna 182 and a RedBird Simulator.
  • York County Helicopters provides instruction in Robinson R22s and R44s.
  • Sanford Soaring provides instruction in gliders to club members.
  • History

    The Sanford Airport began as an airfield constructed by the Sanford Mills in the 1930s, with a single airstrip and hangar. With the entry of the United States into World War II in 1941, the airfield was expanded by the United States Navy in 1942 and formally commissioned as the Sanford Naval Auxiliary Air Facility in 1943. It served as one of several secondary airfields to the primary Brunswick Naval Air Station. Its runway network was enlarged and paved, and barracks and a control tower were built on what is now the southwestern side of the airfield. A torpedo squadron and a fighter squadron were stationed here in 1944, and the field was used for training exercises. After the war ended, the facilities were largely mothballed, but remained manned until the 1960s. Of the structures built by the Navy, only a hangar and the control tower/administration building survived. The latter, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, was demolished in 2006-07 because it was in poor condition and the tower was deemed a hazard to aviation.

    References

    Sanford Seacoast Regional Airport Wikipedia