Ralph E. Koch Airport

Ralph E. Koch Airport
Ralph E. Koch Airport
	IATA: none; ICAO: none; FAA LID: 61Y;
Summary
Airport type	Public use
Owner	Ralph E. Koch
Serves	Poseyville, Indiana
Elevation AMSL	450 ft / 137 m
Coordinates	38°12′27″N087°46′28″W / 38.20750°N 87.77444°W Coordinates: 38°12′27″N087°46′28″W / 38.20750°N 87.77444°W
Map
	61Y Location of airport in Indiana
Runways
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations	840
Based aircraft	2
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration [1]

Last updated May 04, 2019

Ralph E. Koch Airport( FAA LID : 61Y) is a public use airport in Gibson County, Indiana, United States.^[1] It is located two nautical miles (4 km) north of the central business district of Poseyville,^[1] a town in Posey County.

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.

Facilities and aircraft

Ralph E. Koch Airport covers an area of 81 acres (33 ha) at an elevation of 450 feet (137 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways with turf surfaces: 4/22 is 2,960 by 100 feet (902 x 30 m) and 18U/36U is 1,125 by 100 feet (343 x 30 m).

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 December 31, 2006, the airport had 840 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 70 per month. At that time there were two aircraft based at this airport, one single-engine and one ultralight.

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 FAA Airport Master Record for 61Y ( Form 5010 PDF ). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective July 31, 2008.

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[FAA-1] 1 2 3 FAA Airport Master Record for 61Y ( Form 5010 PDF ). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective July 31, 2008.

Ralph E. Koch Airport

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Facilities and aircraft

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