New Castle Municipal Airport

New Castle Municipal Airport
New Castle Municipal Airport
	IATA: none; ICAO: KUCP; FAA LID: UCP;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Lawrence County Airport Authority
Serves	New Castle, Pennsylvania
Location	Union Township
Elevation AMSL	1,070 ft / 326 m
Coordinates	41°01′31″N 080°24′48″W / 41.02528°N 80.41333°W
Runways
Statistics (2009)
Aircraft operations
Aircraft operations	35,357
Based aircraft	58
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

New Castle Municipal Airport (ICAO: KUCP, FAA LID: UCP) is a small municipal airport located in Union Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania serving Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Union Township is an outskirt of New Castle, Pennsylvania hence the name. The airport is located four nautical miles (7 km) northwest of the central business district of New Castle.^[1] The airport is a public-owned airport and is controlled by the Lawrence County Airport Authority.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned UCP by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[2]

Facilities and aircraft

New Castle Municipal Airport covers an area of 320 acres (130 ha) at an elevation of 1,070 feet (326 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 5/23 is 3,995 by 75 feet (1,218 x 23 m) and 13/31 is 2,745 by 100 feet (837 x 30 m).^[1]

The airport's fixed-base operator (FBO) is Haski Aviation.

For the 12-month period ending February 28, 2009, the airport had 35,357 aircraft operations, an average of 96 per day: 97% general aviation, 3% air taxi and <1% military. At that time there were 58 aircraft based at this airport: 96% single-engine, 2% multi-engine and 2% helicopter.^[1]