Danville Airport

Airport
40°57′05″N 076°38′34″W / 40.95139°N 76.64278°W / 40.95139; -76.64278Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
9/27 3,000 914 Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations30,000
Based aircraft38
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Danville Airport (FAA LID: 8N8) is a public use airport in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Danville, a borough in Montour County.[1] The airport is owned by the Montour & Northumberland County Commissioners.

Facilities and aircraft

Hangar at Danville Airport

Danville Airport covers an area of 114 acres (46 ha) at an elevation of 559 feet (170 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 9/27 which measures 3,000 by 60 feet (914 x 18 m).[1]

The airport previously had two turf runways: 9/27 which measured 2,140 by 350 feet (652 m × 107 m) (located north of the new 9/27 asphalt runway[2]) and 15/33 measuring 2,170 by 198 feet (661 m × 60 m).[3][4]

For the 12-month period ending August 6, 2008, the airport had 30,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 82 per day. At that time there were 38 aircraft based at this airport, all single-engine.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d FAA Airport Form 5010 for 8N8 PDF, effective 2009-07-02.
  2. ^ Danville Airport
  3. ^ Danville Airport (8N8) Archived 2008-02-20 at the Wayback Machine at PennDOT Bureau of Aviation
  4. ^ Economic Impacts of Aviation: Danville Archived 2011-02-17 at Wikiwix

External links

  • Resources for this airport:
    • FAA airport information for 8N8
    • AirNav airport information for 8N8
    • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
    • SkyVector aeronautical chart for 8N8
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