Centennial Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Centennial Airport

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IATA = APA
ICAO = KAPA
type = Public
owner = Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority
location = Centennial, Colorado
elevation-f = 5,883
elevation-m = 1,793
coordinates = coord|39|34|12|N|104|50|57|W|type:airport_region:US

r1-number = 17L/35R
r1-length-f = 10,002
r1-length-m = 3,049
r1-surface = Asphalt
r2-number = 17R/35L
r2-length-f = 7,004
r2-length-m = 2,135
r2-surface = Asphalt
r3-number = 10/28
r3-length-f = 4,800
r3-length-m = 1,463
r3-surface = Asphalt

Centennial Airport Airport codes|APA|KAPA lies within Arapahoe and Douglas counties and adjacent to Centennial, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. The airport, opened on May 12, 1967 as Arapahoe County Airport and renamed to its current name July 13, 1984, is not named after the city, having predated it by 17 years. In 1985 a new control tower was built. It is an international airport with 24/7 US Customs services and ranks the second busiest general aviation airport in the United States in terms of take offs and landings, after Van Nuys Airport, with average of 874 operations per day. [ [http://flightaware.com/resources/airport/KAPA FlightAware > Resources > Airport > Centennial Airport (Denver, CO) [KAPA/APA ] ] It is served by a 24/7 Federal Aviation Administration control tower and associated air traffic control services, as well as U.S. customs. It has three runways - 17/35 Left and Right, and 10/28. Runway 35R has a Cat I Instrument Approach. A number of flight schools, flying clubs, air charter services, aircraft sales services and aircraft maintenance services are based at Centennial Airport.Fact|date=August 2008

Five fixed base operators (FBOs) have operations at Centennial Airport; Denver jetCenter, TAC Air, Signature Flight Support, XJet, and the HeliPlex, which caters to helicopters only.Fact|date=August 2008

Aviation Technology Group (ATG) and Adam Aircraft Industries have offices at the airport.Fact|date=August 2008

Safety issues

Following a spate of fatal crashes at Centennial airport in 2004 - 2005, including 2 involving Mitsubishi MU-2 aircraft operated by Flightline Inc within a short period, reporters at the Denver Post used National Transportation Safety Board accident data to show that "the airport has had more general-aviation accidents - 69 - associated with it than any other U.S. airport over the past 15 years, about 35 percent more than an airfield in Anchorage, Alaska, that has the second-highest number."Fact|date=August 2008 The airport’s accident rate is lower - 35th nationally among those with at least 500,000 takeoffs and landings since 1990 - because it is also one of the nation’s busiest.Fact|date=August 2008

References

* [http://www.centennial-airport.com/ Centennial Airport] (official site)
*FAA-airport|ID=APA|use=PU|own=PU|site=02572.*A

External links

* Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT): [http://www.colorado-aeronautics.org/centennial.htm Centennial Airport]
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