Hammond Northshore Regional Airport is a city-owned, public-use, joint civil-military, general aviation airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northeast of the

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, a city in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States. The airport was previously an uncontrolled facility utilizing

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-band UNICOM as a Common Traffic Advisory Frequency (CTAF). As a result of the relocation of

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flight operations from Lakefront Airport to Hammond, a new control tower was constructed at the airport. This tower, staffed by military air traffic controllers from the Air Operations Department of the Louisiana Army National Guard's Army Aviation Support Facility #1 at the airport, became operational on 15 December 2014. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and

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, this airport is assigned HDC by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.Great Circle Mapper: KHDC - Hammond, Louisiana
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Facilities and aircraft

Hammond Northshore Regional Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 47 feet (14 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 13/31 is 6,502 by 100 feet (1,982 x 30 m) with an asphalt/concrete surface; 18/36 is 5,001 by 150 feet (1,524 x 46 m) with a concrete surface. For the 12-month period ending April 16, 2008, the airport had 76,850 aircraft operations, an average of 210 per day: 82% general aviation, 16% military and 2% air taxi. At that time there were 113 aircraft based at this airport: 67% single- engine, 18% military, 9% multi-engine, 5%

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and 1% helicopter. The Louisiana Army National Guard maintains a campus (constructed in 2008-2009) at the Hammond airport, which is home to the 1/244th Air Assault Helicopter Battalion, which operates UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, and the 204th Theater Air Operation Command. The Louisiana Air National Guard also maintains a non-flying unit, the

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(236 CCS), at the airport.

History

During World War II, part of the airport served as a detention camp for prisoners of war from Germany.

References

External links

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