Cannon Field

Cannon Field
Cannon Field
	IATA: none; ICAO: none; FAA LID: 53T;
Summary
Airport type	Public use
Owner/Operator	Alamo Liaison Group (dba Alamo Liaison Squadron)
Serves	Somerset, Texas
Elevation AMSL	610 ft / 186 m
Coordinates	29°12′58″N098°32′58″W / 29.21611°N 98.54944°W Coordinates: 29°12′58″N098°32′58″W / 29.21611°N 98.54944°W
Map
	53T Location of airport in Texas
Runways
Statistics (2011)
Aircraft operations	600
Based aircraft	13
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration [1]

Last updated March 17, 2019

Cannon Field( FAA LID : 53T, formerly 53TX) is a privately owned, public use airport located six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) east of the central business district of Somerset, a city in Bexar County, Texas, United States.^[1] It is a small airport on the south side of San Antonio, located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Loop 1604 and Applewhite Road.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a governmental body of the United States with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation in that nation as well as over its surrounding international waters. Its powers include the construction and operation of airports, air traffic management, the certification of personnel and aircraft, and the protection of U.S. assets during the launch or re-entry of commercial space vehicles. Powers over neighboring international waters were delegated to the FAA by authority of the International Civil Aviation Organization.

A location identifier is a symbolic representation for the name and the location of an airport, navigation aid, or weather station, and is used for manned air traffic control facilities in air traffic control, telecommunications, computer programming, weather reports, and related services.

An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports often have facilities to store and maintain aircraft, and a control tower. An airport consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface such as a runway for a plane to take off or a helipad, and often includes adjacent utility buildings such as control towers, hangars and terminals. Larger airports may have airport aprons, taxiway bridges, air traffic control centres, passenger facilities such as restaurants and lounges, and emergency services. In some countries, the US in particular, they also typically have one or more fixed-base operators, serving general aviation.

History

Cannon Field is the home of the Alamo Liaison Squadron. The squadron primarily restores, maintains, and flies World War II liaison aircraft from their home base on the field. The squadron hosts an annual picnic and welcomes visitors.

World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. A state of total war emerged, directly involving more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. The major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.

Liaison aircraft Light aircraft for artillery observation and military communications

A liaison aircraft is a small, usually unarmed aircraft primarily used by military forces for artillery observation or transporting commanders and messages. The concept developed before World War II and included also battlefield reconnaissance, air ambulance, column control, light cargo delivery and similar duties. Able to operate from small, unimproved fields under primitive conditions, with STOL capabilities, most liaison aircraft were developed from, or were later used as general aviation aircraft. Both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters can perform liaison duties.

Facilities and aircraft

Cannon Field covers an area of 33 acres (13 ha) at an elevation of 610 feet (186 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 16/34 with a turf surface measuring 2,880 by 100 feet (878 x 30 m).^[1]

The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong, which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, ¹⁄₆₄₀ of a square mile, or 43,560 square feet, and approximately 4,047 m², or about 40% of a hectare. Based upon the International yard and pound agreement of 1959, an acre may be declared as exactly 4,046.8564224 square metres. The acre is a statute measure in the United States and was formerly one in the United Kingdom and almost all countries of the former British Empire, although informal use continues.

The hectare is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides, or 10,000 m², and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is about 0.405 hectare and one hectare contains about 2.47 acres.

Elevation Height of a geographic location above a fixed reference point

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface . The term elevation is mainly used when referring to points on the Earth's surface, while altitude or geopotential height is used for points above the surface, such as an aircraft in flight or a spacecraft in orbit, and depth is used for points below the surface.

For the 12-month period ending March 26, 2011, the airport had 600 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 50 per month. At that time there were 13 aircraft based at this airport, all single-engine.^[1]

General Aviation (GA) represents the 'private transport' and recreational flying component of aviation.

Aircraft engine Engine designed for use in powered aircraft

An aircraft engine is a component of the propulsion system for an aircraft that generates mechanical power. Aircraft engines are almost always either lightweight piston engines or gas turbines, except for small multicopter UAVs which are almost always electric aircraft.

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References

1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for 53T ( Form 5010 PDF ). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective April 5, 2012.

External links

Aerial image as of January 1995 from USGS The National Map
Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for 53T
- AirNav airport information for 53T
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for 53T

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[FAA-1] 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for 53T ( Form 5010 PDF ). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective April 5, 2012.