- Asheville Regional Airport
Infobox Airport
name = Asheville Regional Airport
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 Administration FAA-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 nearInterstate 40 andInterstate 26 in the town of Fletcher, nine miles (14.5 km) south of the city of Asheville, in theU.S. state ofNorth 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
acre s (364 ha) and has onerunway 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. CharteredBoeing 747 s (United Airlines) have also visited, as has anAirbus A340 during the visit ofCharles, Prince of Wales , to the nearbyBiltmore 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 byExpressJet Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental, Newark)
*Delta Air Lines Gate B3
**Delta Connection operated byAtlantic Southeast Airlines (Atlanta)
**Delta Connection operated byChautauqua Airlines (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky)
**Delta Connection operated byComair (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky)
*Northwest Airlines Gate A2
**Northwest Airlink operated byPinnacle Airlines (Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul)
*US Airways Gate B1
**US Airways Express operated byPiedmont Airlines (Charlotte)
**US Airways Express operated byPSA Airlines (Charlotte)
**US Airways Express operated byAir Wisconsin (Charlotte, Philadelphia)Incidents
On
July 19 ,1967 ,Piedmont Airlines Flight 22, aBoeing 727 , collided in mid-air with aCessna 310 just south of the airport inHendersonville, 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 , aCessna 177 Cardinal crashed into Old Fort Mountain after taking off from the airport. It killed authorAmanda 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 1977Cessna 182 en route to Asheville Airport crashed near the airport, killing three Georgia men. Initial reports said that rapperJay-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 atNCDOT web site
*coord|35.4362|-82.5418|region:US-NC_type:airport|display=title
*FAA-diagram|05061
*US-airport|AVL
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