Calaveras County Airport , also known as Maury Rasmussen Field, is a public
airport
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located four miles (6 km) southeast of the
central business district of
San Andreas, in
Calaveras County
Calaveras County (), officially the County of Calaveras, is a county in both the Gold Country and High Sierra regions of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 45,292. The county seat is San Andreas. Angels C ...
,
California
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,
United States
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. It is owned by the County of Calaveras.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter
location identifier
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for the
FAA
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and
IATA, Calaveras County Airport is assigned CPU by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned CPU to
Cururupu,
Maranhão
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,
Brazil
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).
Great Circle Mapper: CPU - Cururupu, Maranhão, Brazil
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Facilities and aircraft
Calaveras County Airport covers an area of which contains one runway
According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt, concre ...
(13/31: 3,603 x 60 ft.) and two helipads (both 65 x 65 ft.).general aviation
General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations with the exception of commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services ...
. There are 79 aircraft based at this airport: 98% single engine, 1% multi-engine and 1% ultralight
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.
References
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Airports in California
Buildings and structures in Calaveras County, California
Transportation in Calaveras County, California
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