Airport type Public 3/21 3,900 1,189 Asphalt Elevation 254 m Phone +1 607-785-0467 Serves Endicott | Elevation AMSL 833 ft / 254 m 3,900 1,189 Aircraft operations 48,200 Code CZG Owner Village of Endicott | |
Address 351 Industrial Park Blvd, Endicott, NY 13760, USA Similar Greater Binghamt Airport, Us FAA, Luke Airport, Chenango Bridge Airport, Ithaca Tompkins Regional | ||
Tri-Cities Airport (ICAO: KCZG, FAA LID: CZG) is three miles southwest of downtown Endicott, in Broome County, New York. The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013 classified it as a general aviation airport.
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Many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but this airport is CZG to the FAA and has no IATA code.
Facilities
Tri-Cities Airport covers 230 acres (93 ha) at an elevation of 833 feet (254 m). Its one runway, 3/21, is 3,900 by 75 feet (1,189 × 23 m) asphalt.
In the year ending January 15, 2008 the airport had 48,200 aircraft operations, average 132 per day: 89% general aviation, 10% air taxi and <1% military. 52 aircraft were then based at this airport: 86% single-engine, 6% multi-engine and 8% glider.
History
Tri-Cities Airport was the main airport for the Endicott-Johnson City-Binghamton area from the 1930s until the early 1950s. In its early years it had a passenger terminal building, control tower, and cafe. The tower and cafe have been demolished; the main hangar, also built in the Works Progress Administration era, was demolished in 2010. The small terminal building still exists, abandoned for some years.
Robinson Air Lines (predecessor of Mohawk Airlines) began scheduled DC-3 flights to Tri-Cities in September 1948; it moved to Broome County when it opened in 1951.
Tri-Cities Airport was planned in 1934 and opened in 1936 with three gravel/unpaved runways of about 3,000 feet (910 m). In 1942 the east-west and northeast-southwest runways were paved. Runway 3-21 was 3,500 feet (1,100 m) long and 100 feet (30 m) wide, but was lengthened in the mid-1980s to 3,900 feet (1,200 m) and the width was reduced to 75 feet (23 m). A parallel asphalt taxiway and a few connector taxiways were added. The east-west crosswind runway 9-27 was 3,200 feet (980 m) long and 100 feet (30 m) wide, but was abandoned around 1969 and is now a taxiway along part of its length.
An Automated Weather Observing System (AWOS-3) was installed to provide current weather information to pilots. In the flood of 2006 the AWOS was destroyed and soon replaced. In the flood of 2011 the AWOS was again destroyed. In Nov 2015 replacement was again completed, well above the 2011 water level to protect it from future floods.
Airport lighting
Runway 3-21 has medium intensity runway edge lighting. Both runway ends have runway end identifier lights. Runway 21 has precision approach path indicators, having replaced the older VASIs.
The airport has a beacon, but hills - especially the one to the north - can hide it.
Instrument procedures
For many years a circling instrument approach has brought aircraft in from the north via the Binghamton VORTAC, about five miles (8 km) distant. As of Oct 2015 the MDA is 1,367 feet (417 m) above the airport elevation or 1,167 feet (356 m) if the aircraft can identify the CUMOS fix. Visibility required for the approach is 1¼ miles for categories A and B, with categories C and above NA. Some historical procedures in the 1970s required around 1¾ miles visibility as an absolute minimum.
With the addition of GPS-based navigation, straight-in RNAV (GPS) approaches were added for runways 3 and 21. These approaches have slightly lower minima than the VOR-A. Aircraft in categories C and above are still NA. For details, check current approach charts.
Weather factors
Being next to the Susquehanna River the airport gets fog relatively frequently in late night to mid-morning hours in late summer to autumn, with visibilities often under one-quarter mile.