Jeremiah Denton Airport

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Jeremiah Denton Airport
Dauphin Island Airport.jpg
NAIP aerial image, 23 June 2006
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner Mobile County
Serves Dauphin Island, Alabama
Elevation  AMSL 5 ft / 2 m
Coordinates 30°15′38″N088°07′39″W / 30.26056°N 88.12750°W / 30.26056; -88.12750
Jeremiah Denton Airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
12/303,000914Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Aircraft operations (2015)3,650
Based aircraft0

Jeremiah Denton Airport( FAA LID : 4R9), formerly Dauphin Island Airport, is a county-owned public-use airport in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. [1] It is just northwest of the central business district of Dauphin Island, [1] a town located on a barrier island. The airport is on Mobile Bay, west of the Aloe Bay Channel. [2]

Contents

This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 [3] and 2009–2013, [4] both of which categorized it as a general aviation facility. In 2017 the airfield was closed for a time to test Navy drone operations. [5]

Facilities and aircraft

Jeremiah Denton Airport covers an area of 22 acres (9 ha) at an elevation of 5 feet (2 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 12/30 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,000 by 80 feet (914 x 24 m). For the 12-month period ending May 18, 2010, the airport had 3,650 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 10 per day. [1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Form 5010 for 4R9 PDF . Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 25 August 2011.
  2. ↑ "About the Island: Dauphin Island Airport". Dauphin Island Property. Archived from the original on 19 November 2008. Retrieved 27 July 2009. Archived 25 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A (PDF, 2.03 MB)" (PDF). 2011–2015 National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. 4 October 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-27.
  4. ↑ "2009–2013 NPIAS Report, Appendix A: Part 1 (PDF, 1.33 MB)" (PDF). 2009–2013 National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. 15 October 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-06.
  5. ↑ "Navy to use Dauphin Island for unmanned test flights". 30 March 2017.
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