(USA) Interesting FAA data

Interesting airport numbers from the FAA's NASR datamabase:

FacilityType Count
AIRPORT 12641
BALLOONPORT 15
GLIDERPORT 34
HELIPORT 5413
SEAPLANE BASE 497
STOLPORT 80
ULTRALIGHT 135
Total 18815

That's 12875 air/gliderports alone!

In case you're wondering, 12675 of those have described runways.

The number of runways in the air/gliderports:
1 10391
2 1831
3 356
4 72
5 15
6 8
7 1
8 1

I wonder which airport has 8 runways?! (I am not going to check.)

2NO

I am sure there are others, but San Francisco, ca fits the bill with 8
runways.

Most commercial airports actually have mo Denver, CO= 12 runways,
Long Beach, CA= 10 runways
for example...

On Jan 2, 9:32*pm, jeplane wrote:
I am sure there are others, but San Francisco, ca fits the bill with 8
runways.

Most commercial airports actually have mo Denver, CO= 12 runways,
Long Beach, CA= 10 runways
for example...

I think in this case they are counting both ends of a landing surface
(ie. Rwy 9 & 27) as a single runway for the statistics, considering
the maximum number of runways listed is 8.

That's krekt. The database shows Denver with 6 and LGB with 5.

Well then, I am curious!
Which airport in the US has 8 runways (or 16 depending where you are
coming from?)

Well then, I am curious!
Which airport in the US has 8 runways...

The national centerline champion is, well, unique. All eight runways
are 1800 by 150 feet. And the airport is completely symetrical around
four axis.

It is owned by the Navy, in Florida:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=N30%C 2%B037'00%22+W087%C2%B008'00%22&ie=UTF8&ll=30.6253 94,-87.139521&spn=0.026958,0.046349&t=h&z=15&om=1

(No doubt you'll need to reassemble the above link to make it work.)

The airport with "only" seven runways is DFW, with three of them at
13400' in length.

Tuno wrote:
That's krekt. The database shows Denver with 6 and LGB with 5.
If they are counting both ends of the runway, then I'm curious about the
one's with 1, 3, 5, and 7.......

On Jan 3, 1:30*pm, Gary Emerson wrote:
Tuno wrote:
That's krekt. The database shows Denver with 6 and LGB with 5.

If they are counting both ends of the runway, then I'm curious about the
one's with 1, 3, 5, and 7.......

One runway with two landing directions = 1 runway in their
statistics. If each direction was counted separately they would all
be even numbers.

So the airport with 8 runways has up to 16 landing directions, but 8
bits of solid stuff on the ground.

Tuno wrote:
Interesting airport numbers from the FAA's NASR datamabase:

I've read about an experimental circular runway being built in the USA
during the '20s or '30s:
- where it was
- does it still exist
- how many runways should it be counted as in this database?

Enquiring minds want to know.


--
martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

On Jan 3, 10:16*am, Martin Gregorie
wrote:

I've read about an experimental circular runway being built in the USA
during the '20s or '30s:

Speaking of which, I've been wondering how easy it would be to land in
a curved field. Is there much special technique to landing on a
curved field with trees on the sides? I suppose the biggest challenge
would be to touch down at the right spot tangent to the curve and keep
the right bank angle in through the pattern all the way to the stop.

Suppose somebody could try it on a big square field.

Not dragging the inside wing would be the biggest challenge, maybe a
high wing glider like a K-8 would be easier.

Chris