Cape Fear Regional Jetport
Cape Fear Regional Jetport Howie Franklin Field | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Brunswick County Airport Commission | ||||||||||
| Serves | Oak Island, North Carolina | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 26 ft / 8 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°55′51″N 078°04′24″W / 33.93083°N 78.07333°W | ||||||||||
| Website | CapeFearJetport.com | ||||||||||
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  SUT Location of airport in North Carolina | |||||||||||
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Cape Fear Regional Jetport[1][2][3] (ICAO: KSUT, FAA LID: SUT), also known as Howie Franklin Field,[1][2] is a public use airport in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States.[1] It is owned by the Brunswick County Airport Commission and located one nautical mile (2 km) northeast of the central business district of Oak Island, North Carolina.[1] Formerly known as Brunswick County Airport,[4] it is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[5]
Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned SUT by the FAA[1] but has no designation from the IATA[6] (which assigned SUT to Sumbawanga Airport in Sumbawanga, Tanzania).[7][8]
Facilities and aircraft
[edit]Cape Fear Regional Jetport covers an area of 185 acres (75 ha) at an elevation of 26 feet (8 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 5/23 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,505 by 100 feet (1,678 x 30 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending November 23, 2010, the airport had 77,000 aircraft operations, an average of 210 per day: 96% general aviation and 4% military. At that time there were 67 aircraft based at this airport: 92.5% single-engine, 3% multi-engine, 3% ultralight, and 1.5% helicopter.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h FAA Airport Form 5010 for SUT – Cape Fear Rgnl Jetport/Howie Franklin Fld PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective November 15, 2012.
- ^ a b "Cape Fear Rgnl Jetport/Howie Franklin Fld (SUT)" (PDF). Airport Directory. North Carolina Department of Transportation. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
- ^ "Cape Fear Regional Jetport". Official site. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
- ^ "KSUT – Brunswick County Airport". FAA data republished by AirNav. July 29, 2010. Archived from the original on August 22, 2010.
- ^ "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A" (PDF). National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF, 2.03 MB) on 2012-09-27.
- ^ "Oak Island, North Carolina (IATA: none, ICAO: KSUT, FAA: SUT)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
- ^ "IATA Airport Code Search (SUT: Sumbawanga)". International Air Transport Association. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
- ^ "Sumbawanga Airport, Tanzania (IATA: SUT, ICAO: HTSU)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
External links
[edit]- Cape Fear Regional Jetport, official site
- Aerial photo as of March 1999 from USGS The National Map via MSR Maps
- FAA Terminal Procedures for SUT, effective November 28, 2024
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for SUT
- AirNav airport information for KSUT
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures