Columbus Metropolitan Airport

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Columbus Airport
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Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerColumbus Airport Commission
Serves Columbus, Georgia
Elevation  AMSL 397 ft / 121 m
Coordinates 32°30′59″N084°56′20″W / 32.51639°N 84.93889°W / 32.51639; -84.93889
Website flycolumbusga.com
Map
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CSG
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CSG
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
6/246,9972,133Asphalt
13/313,9971,218Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Aircraft operations (year ending 11/30/2022)37,662
Based aircraft132
Sources: Airport, [1] FAA, [2] Georgia DOT [3]

Columbus Airport [1] ( IATA : CSG, ICAO : KCSG, FAA LID : CSG) (formerly Columbus Metropolitan Airport) is four miles northeast of Columbus, in Muscogee County, Georgia, United States. [2] Serving Georgia's second largest city, it is Georgia's fourth busiest airport.

Contents

FAA records say the airport had 51,288 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, [4] 48,526 in 2009 and 63,726 in 2010. [5] The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year). [6]

Eastern Airlines flights began about 1944, Delta arrived in 1947 and Southern in 1949; Eastern and Southern pulled out in 1979 and Delta's last mainline flights were in 1995–96.

In 1968 Southern was allowed to start nonstop DC-9s Columbus to Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C., three a day, all continuing to LaGuardia Airport in New York City. The flights continued (two to four a day) until 1979.

Facilities

The Airport covers 680 acres (275 ha) at an elevation of 397 feet (121 m). It has two asphalt runways: 6/24 is 6,997 by 150 feet (2,133 x 46 m) and 13/31 is 3,997 by 150 feet (1,218 x 46 m). [2]

In the year ending November 30, 2022 the airport had 37,662 aircraft operations, average 103 per day: 86% general aviation, 7% air taxi, 3% airline, and 4% military. 132 aircraft were then based at the airport: 106 single-engine, 13 multi-engine, 7 jet, 2 helicopter, 1 glider and 3 ultralight. [2]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Delta Connection Atlanta [7]

Destination statistics

Busiest domestic routes from CSG
(February 2023 – January 2024) [8]
RankCityPassengers
1 Atlanta, Georgia 50,220
2 Charlotte, North Carolina 3,610
3 Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas 1,230

Incidents

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References

  1. 1 2 "Columbus Airport (official website)". Columbus Airport Commission. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Form 5010 for CSG – Columbus Metropolitan PDF . Federal Aviation Administration. Effective July 13, 2023.
  3. ↑ "CSG – Columbus Metropolitan". Georgia Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on October 28, 2012. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Enplanements for CY 2008" (PDF, 1.0 MB). CY 2008 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data. Federal Aviation Administration. December 18, 2009.
  5. ↑ "Enplanements for CY 2010" (PDF, 189 KB). CY 2010 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2011.
  6. ↑ "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A" (PDF). National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF, 2.03 MB) on September 27, 2012.
  7. ↑ "American Airlines to end service from Columbus Airport". WTVM. January 7, 2023. Retrieved January 8, 2023.
  8. ↑ "RITA | BTS | Transtats". Bureau of Transportation Statistics. January 2017. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  9. ↑ "CRASH OF A CESSNA 411 IN COLUMBUS: 1 KILLED". baaa-acro.com.
  10. ↑ "CSG crash info". Ledger-Enquirer.com. July 20, 2009.[ permanent dead link ]
  11. ↑ "Plane Crash at Columbus Airport". WTVM.com. July 19, 2009. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved January 4, 2010.


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