New Castle Municipal Airport is a small municipal airport located in Union Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania serving

Lawrence County, Pennsylvania Lawrence County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 86,070. The county seat is New Castle. Lawrence County comprises the entire New Castle, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is ...

, part of the

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. Union Township is an outskirt of

New Castle, Pennsylvania New Castle is a city in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Lawrence County. It is northwest of Pittsburgh, and near the Pennsylvania–Ohio border, just southeast of Youngstown, Ohio. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, ...

hence the name. The airport is located four

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s (7 km) northwest of the

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of New Castle. The airport is a public-owned airport and is controlled by the Lawrence County Airport Authority. This airport is assigned a three-letter

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of UCP by the

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, but it does not have an

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Facilities and aircraft

New Castle Municipal Airport covers an area of at an

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of 1,070 feet (326 m) above

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. It has two

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paved

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s: 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). The airport's

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(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%

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, 3%

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and <1%

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. At that time there were 58 aircraft based at this airport: 96% single-

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, 2% multi-engine and 2%

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References

External links

New Castle Municipal Airport (UCP)
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Bureau of Aviation *
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