Asheville Regional Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Asheville Regional Airport

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caption = Gates B2 and B3 in the main terminal.
IATA = AVL
ICAO = KAVL
FAA = AVL
type = Public
owner = City of Asheville
operator = Asheville Regional Airport Authority
city-served = Asheville, North Carolina
location =
elevation-f = 2,165
elevation-m = 660
coordinates = coord|35|26|10|N|082|32|30|W|region:US-NC_type:airport
website =
r1-number = 16/34
r1-length-f = 8,001
r1-length-m = 2,439
r1-surface = Asphalt
stat-year = 2007
stat1-header = Aircraft operations
stat1-data = 35,374
stat2-header = Based aircraft
stat2-data = 130
footnotes = Source: Federal Aviation AdministrationFAA-airport|ID=AVL|use=PU|own=PU|site=16517.5*A, effective 2008-04-10]

Asheville Regional Airport airport codes|AVL|KAVL|AVL is a Class C airport near Interstate 40 and Interstate 26 in the town of Fletcher, nine miles (14.5 km) south of the city of Asheville, in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is owned by the City of Asheville. In 2003 it serviced a total of 441,811 passengers.

Facilities and aircraft

Asheville Regional Airport covers an area of 900 acres (364 ha) and has one runway designated 16/34 with a 8,001 x 150 ft (2,439 x 46 m) asphalt surface.

For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2007, the airport had 35,374 aircraft operations, an average of 96 per day: 64% general aviation, 24% air taxi, 9% scheduled commercial and 3% military. At that time there were 130 aircraft based at this airport: 57% single-engine, 31% multi-engine, 6% jet and 6% helicopter.

The airport currently sees the following models of aircraft on a regular basis:
* ATR 72 Turboprop (66 passengers)
* Canadair Regional Jet (50 passengers)
* De Havilland Canada Dash 8 Turboprop (37 or 50 passengers)
* Embraer ERJ (37 or 50 passengers)
* Boeing 737 (Vacation and college athletic charters)
* McDonnell Douglas MD-88 (charters)

A Concorde visited AVL during a 1987 promotional tour and was snowed in. Chartered Boeing 747s (United Airlines) have also visited, as has an Airbus A340 during the visit of Charles, Prince of Wales, to the nearby Biltmore Estate in 1996. AVL's convert|8001|ft|m|sing=on runway allows for the operation of almost any aircraft type.

Airlines and destinations

* Continental Airlines Gate A1
** Continental Express operated by ExpressJet Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental, Newark)
* Delta Air Lines Gate B3
** Delta Connection operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines (Atlanta)
** Delta Connection operated by Chautauqua Airlines (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky)
** Delta Connection operated by Comair (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky)
* Northwest Airlines Gate A2
** Northwest Airlink operated by Pinnacle Airlines (Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul)
* US Airways Gate B1
** US Airways Express operated by Piedmont Airlines (Charlotte)
** US Airways Express operated by PSA Airlines (Charlotte)
** US Airways Express operated by Air Wisconsin (Charlotte, Philadelphia)

Incidents

On July 19, 1967, Piedmont Airlines Flight 22, a Boeing 727, collided in mid-air with a Cessna 310 just south of the airport in Hendersonville, North Carolina. The collision happened just moments after the 727 took off from the Asheville Airport. All 82 people on both planes were killed.

On March 15, 2003, a Cessna 177 Cardinal crashed into Old Fort Mountain after taking off from the airport. It killed author Amanda Davis, who was on a book tour promoting her first novel "Wonder When You'll Miss Me" (ISBN 0-688-16781-0), and her parents.

On May 4, 2007, a 1977 Cessna 182 en route to Asheville Airport crashed near the airport, killing three Georgia men. Initial reports said that rapper Jay-Z was on-board. These were false. [http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770504024]

References

External links

* [http://www.flyavl.com/ Asheville Regional Airport] , official web site
*PDFlink| [http://www.ncdot.org/transit/aviation/download/ncairports/AshevilleRegionalAirportAVL.pdf Asheville Regional Airport] |324 KiB at NCDOT web site
*coord|35.4362|-82.5418|region:US-NC_type:airport|display=title
*FAA-diagram|05061
*US-airport|AVL