Fort Worth Alliance Airport
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| IATA: AFW – ICAO: KAFW – FAA LID: AFW | |||
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner | City of Fort Worth | ||
| Serves | Fort Worth, Texas | ||
| Hub for | FedEx Express | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 722 ft / 220 m | ||
| Coordinates | 32°59′16″N 097°19′08″W / 32.98778°N 97.31889°W | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 16L/34R | 9,600 | 2,926 | Concrete |
| 16R/34L | 8,220 | 2,505 | Concrete |
| Statistics (2011) | |||
| Aircraft operations | 137,607 | ||
| Based aircraft | 46 | ||
| Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] | |||
Fort Worth Alliance Airport (IATA: AFW, ICAO: KAFW, FAA LID: AFW) is a city-owned public-use airport located 14 miles (23 km) north of the central business district of Fort Worth, city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States.[1]
Billed as the world's first purely industrial airport, it was developed in a joint venture between the City of Fort Worth, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Hillwood Development Company, a real estate development company owned by Ross Perot, Jr.[2]
The official groundbreaking ceremonies were held in July 1988, and the airport officially opened on December 14, 1989.[3] The airport is owned by the City of Fort Worth and managed by Alliance Air Services, a subsidiary of Hillwood Development, and is the second largest airport facility in North Texas, behind only Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW).[2]
Besides general aviation services, the airport serves as a maintenance hub for Fedex Express aircraft, and can serve as an auxilliary cargo-handling destination relieving FedEx's primary Dallas-area hub at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. It formerly served as a maintenance hub for DFW-based American Airlines, until the bankruptcy filing and subsequent restructuring of its parent AMR Corporation.
Alliance filled-in for Los Angeles International Airport during the filming of the short-lived 2004 TV drama LAX.
By the 1990s, the annual passenger air traffic at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport had exceeded the airport's capacity, and a solution was proposed to repeal the Wright Amendment and open Alliance Airport to passenger service, effectively providing DFW with two reliever airports (the other being Dallas Love Field). But DFW opposed the solution and no passenger service was introduced at Alliance Airport.
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Facilities and aircraft [edit]
Fort Worth Alliance Airport covers an area of 1,198 acres (485 ha) which contains two concrete paved runways: 16L/34R measuring 9,600 x 150 ft (2,926 x 46 m) and 16R/34L measuring 8,220 x 150 ft (2,505 x 46 m).[1] Currently Alliance Airport is in the process of a Runway extension to 11,000 feet.[4]
For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2008, the airport had 100,031 aircraft operations, an average of 274 per day: 73% general aviation, 8% scheduled commercial, 14% military and 6% air taxi. At that time there were 155 aircraft based at this airport: 35% single-engine, 17% multi-engine, 16% jet and 31% helicopter.[1]
Major tenants [edit]
American Airlines closed its maintenance base in December 2012 during Chapter 11. Current major tenants include:
- BNSF Railway (Alliance intermodal facility)
- Bell Helicopter Textron (customer acceptance center)
- Drug Enforcement Administration (aviation operations center)
- DynCorp International (main operations center)
- FedEx Express (southwest regional sort hub)
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ a b c d FAA Airport Master Record for AFW (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-12-20
- ^ a b "Fort Worth Begins Construction of $25 Million Industrial Airport". The Journal Record (Dolan Media). 1988-06-17. Retrieved 2010-11-29.
- ^ "Fort Worth Alliance Airport". Retrieved 2007-06-03.
- ^ http://www.alliancetexas.com/Services/AllianceAirport/AFWFlightPlanning.aspx
External links [edit]
- Fort Worth Alliance Airport, official web site
- Alliance Air Services
- FAA Airport Diagram (PDF), effective May 2, 2013
- Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for KAFW
- ASN accident history for AFW
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for KAFW
- FAA current AFW delay information
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