Tri-City Airport (Kansas)

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Tri-City Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCity of Parsons
Serves Parsons, Kansas
Elevation  AMSL 900 ft / 274 m
Coordinates 37°19′51″N095°30′22″W / 37.33083°N 95.50611°W / 37.33083; -95.50611
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
17/355,0001,524Concrete
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations6,000
Based aircraft15

Tri-City Airport( IATA : PPF, ICAO : KPPF, FAA LID : PPF) is a public-use airport 12 miles west of Parsons, a city in Labette County, Kansas, United States. [1] It serves Coffeyville, Independence, and Parsons, Kansas.

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In 1942 it was the Cherryvale Army Air Force Auxiliary Field #9 for the Independence Army Airfield; later it was called Pep Field.

Historical airline service

Airline service to the area started in the early 1930s when National Air Transport stopped at Coffeyville on a route between Chicago and Dallas. In 1951 Ozark Airlines began a route from Kansas City to Tulsa stopping at Topeka, Coffeyville (McGugin Field), and Bartlesville, OK. Ozark's service to Coffeyville ended in 1954 but the airline continued to serve nearby Pittsburg, Kansas. In 1961, Central Airlines Douglas DC-3s began flying to Tri-City Airport (PPF) on a Kansas City - Parsons - Bartlesville - Oklahoma City route. Central Airlines merged into the original Frontier Airlines in 1967, and Frontier Convair 580s landed at Tri-City until 1977. From 1977 until 1986 PPF was served by Air Midwest with 17-seat Swearingen Metroliners to Kansas City and Wichita. Just before PPF service ended in 1986, Air Midwest began a codeshare agreement with Eastern Airlines and operated as Eastern Express. PPF has not seen airline flights since 1986. [2]

Facilities

Tri-City Airport covers 802 acres (325  ha ) at an elevation of 900 feet (274 m). Its single runway, 17/35, is 5,000 by 75 feet (1,524 x 23 m). [1]

In the year ending July 3, 2008 the airport had 6,000 aircraft operations, average 16 per day: 92% general aviation, 5% air taxi and 3% military. 15 aircraft were then based at this airport: 87% single-engine and 13% multi-engine. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Form 5010 for PPF PDF , effective 2009-07-02.
  2. ↑ Ozark Airlines, Central Airlines, Frontier Airlines, and Air Midwest timetables


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