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File:Quonset State Airport Logo.jpg CAP aerial photo, western view | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner | Rhode Island Airport Corp. | ||||||||||||||
Serves | North Kingstown, Rhode Island | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 18 ft / 5 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 41°35′50″N 071°24′44″W / 41.59722°N 71.41222°W | ||||||||||||||
Website | quonset.stateairportri.com | ||||||||||||||
Runways | |||||||||||||||
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Quonset State Airport (IATA: NCO, ICAO: KOQU, FAA LID: OQU) is a joint civil-military public airport located on Quonset Point, in northeastern North Kingstown, Rhode Island, adjacent to Narragansett Bay. It is a general aviation airport and there is no scheduled airline service available.
It was the site of the Naval Air Station Quonset Point from 1941 until the early 1970s, when the military presence in Rhode Island was drastically scaled down. Despite the Navy's departure, the airport remains the home of Quonset Point Air National Guard Station and the 143d Airlift Wing (143 AW) of the Rhode Island Air National Guard, flying the C-130J Hercules. The Rhode Island Army National Guard also maintains an Army Aviation Support Facility adjacent to the Air National Guard Station for the 1st Battalion, 126th Aviation Regiment, flying the UH-60 Blackhawk.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Quonset State Airport is assigned OQU by the FAA but is designated NCO by the IATA.[2]
Quonset State Airport is one of six active airports operated by the Rhode Island Airports Corporation. The other five airports include T.F. Green State Airport, North Central State Airport, Westerly State Airport, Newport State Airport, and Block Island State Airport.
In the early 1980s Providence Airline Corp had daily flights leaving Quonset to Boston, Massachusetts; Hartford County, Connecticut; Syracuse, New York; Buffalo, New York; Chicago, Illinois; and Romulus, Michigan.[citation needed]
Facilities and aircraft
Quonset State Airport covers an area of 754 acres (305 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 16/34 measuring 7,504 x 150 ft (2,287 x 46 m) and 5/23 measuring 4,000 x 75 ft (1,219 x 23 m).[1]
The airport lies within Class D airspace and has an operating non-federal air traffic control tower (closed on Mondays).
For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2007, the airport had 20,750 aircraft operations, an average of 56 per day: 68% general aviation, 28% military and 4% air taxi. At that time there were 48 aircraft based at this airport: 60% single-engine, 4% multi-engine, 10% helicopter and 25% military.[1]
The fixed based operator on field is AV Ports as of (7/1/2011).
The flight and aviation instruction and airplane rental company on field is Parker Aviation, LLC., which was established on field in 2012.
References
External links
- Quonset State Airport (OQU) page from Rhode Island Airport Corp.
- Template:Wayback
- Parker Aviation, LLC. A Rhode Island-based Aviation Training Company located at Hangar One on field.
- Photographic archive of the former Quonset Naval Air Station.
- FAA Airport Diagram (PDF), effective August 8, 2024
- FAA Terminal Procedures for OQU, effective August 8, 2024
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for OQU
- AirNav airport information for KOQU
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures