Shelby County Airport (Alabama)
- Shelby County Airport (Alabama)
is a county-owned public-use airport located in Calera, four miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district of the city of Alabaster, in Shelby County, Alabama, United States.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Shelby County Airport is assigned EET by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA. [ [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/KEET Great Circle Mapper: KEET - Alabaster, Alabama (Shelby County Airport)] ]
Facilities and aircraft
Shelby County Airport covers an area of 125 acres (51 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (15/33) measuring 5,000 x 75 ft (1,524 x 23 m). For 12-month period ending January 4, 2006, the airport had 20,848 aircraft operations, an average of 57 per day: 99% general aviation and 1% military. At that time there were 84 aircraft based at this airport: 85% single-engine and 15% multi-engine.
Accidents
On September 23, 2006, a Beechcraft Bonanza F-33 crashed just before the start of an airshow. The pilot was giving rides to the public and had two passengers aboard. All aboard were killed. The passengers included a father and his 11-year-old son. [cite web
url= http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1159090348208710.xml
title= Article from The Birmingham News
month= September | year= 2006]
References
ee also
* List of airports in Alabama
External links
* [http://www.shelbycountyairport.com/ Shelby County] - fixed base operator at Shelby County Airport
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