Lowell Airport | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public use | ||||||||||
Owner | Donald E. Bailey | ||||||||||
Serves | Lowell, Indiana | ||||||||||
Opened | August 1980 [1] | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 675 ft / 206 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 41°13′48″N087°30′28″W / 41.23000°N 87.50778°W Coordinates: 41°13′48″N087°30′28″W / 41.23000°N 87.50778°W | ||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration [2] |
Lowell Airport( FAA LID : C97) is a privately owned, public use airport located five nautical miles (9 km) southwest of the central business district of Lowell, a town in Lake County, Indiana, United States. [2]
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.
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Lowell Airport covers an area of 19 acres (8 ha) at an elevation of 675 feet (206 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 18/36 with a turf surface measuring 3,041 by 100 feet (927 x 30 m). [2]
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.
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For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2008, the airport had 4,176 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 11 per day. At that time there were 11 single-engine aircraft based at this airport. [2]
General Aviation (GA) represents the 'private transport' and recreational flying component of aviation.
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