Jake Arner Memorial Airport

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Jake Arner Memorial Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCarbon County Airport Authority [1]
OperatorCarbon County Airport Authority
ServesLehighton, PA
Location Lehighton, Pennsylvania
Opened1964;57 years ago (1964)
Passenger services ceased1977;44 years ago (1977)
Elevation  AMSL 534 ft / 163 m
Coordinates 40°48′34″N75°45′41″W / 40.8095089°N 75.7614964°W / 40.8095089; -75.7614964
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Jake Arner Memorial Airport (the United States)
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Based aircraft35
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Jake Arner Memorial Airport( FAA LID : 22N) is a public non-towered airport that serves Lehighton, Pennsylvania and the surrounding areas. The airport is home to 35 based aircraft as of 2015, and has about 13,000 aircraft movements every calendar year. It was surveyed at an elevation of 534 ft and 163 m above sea level. [2]

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History

Founding and beginning of Jet Age

The Convair 440 the primary aircraft flown to Lehighton in the 60s and 70s (This one belonging to Lufthansa in Frankfurt in 1968) Convair 440 D-ACAD Lufthansa Kastrup 10.03.68 edited-1.jpg
The Convair 440 the primary aircraft flown to Lehighton in the 60s and 70s (This one belonging to Lufthansa in Frankfurt in 1968)

Jake Arner Memorial Airport was open in December 1964 and was named Lehighton Municipal Airport at the time. The airport flourished in its beginning years; it was a military and commercial airport until commercial service was dropped in 1977. During its relatively brief 10 years of commercial service, the airport saw service from Eastern Air Lines, launched in Spring of 1967, flew Convair 440 Metropolitan daily to Philadelphia via Philadelphia International Airport. Although the founding of the airport was in the midst of the Jet Age in aviation there were very few commercial jets flying into Lehighton. [3] And due to low passenger numbers, an increase in jet fuel and competition of airlines Eastern pulled out of Lehighton after a little over 10 years in 1977.

Modern use

There have been no commercial scheduled flights to Lehighton in 40 years. Currently, Jake Arner Memorial Airport is a general aviation airport. [4]

Aircraft movements

Jake Arner Memorial Airport has had 13,149 aircraft movements in the calendar year or 2015 at a rate of approximately 36 movements per day. The aircraft movements are broken down into percentage form: 77% local general aviation, 19% transient general aviation, 2% military, 2% air taxi. And of the 35 aircraft based on the field in 2015, 27 are Single engine airplanes, 6 are Multi engine airplanes, with one helicopter and one glider. [5] [6]

Aircraft movements by year

YearMovementsChange
201011,367N/A
201111,123Decrease2.svg -244
201214,410Increase2.svg +3,287
201312,111Decrease2.svg -2,299
201413,009Increase2.svg +898
201513,149Increase2.svg +140
2016TBANo data

All data per Federal Aviation Authority (FAA)

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