- North Perry Airport
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Coordinates: 26°00′04″N 080°14′27″W / 26.00111°N 80.24083°W
North Perry Airport IATA: HWO – ICAO: KHWO – FAA LID: HWO Summary Airport type Public Owner Broward County Aviation Department Serves Hollywood, Florida Location Hollywood, Florida Elevation AMSL 8 ft / 2 m Website Runways Direction Length Surface ft m 9L/27R 3,241 988 Asphalt 9R/27L 3,255 992 Asphalt 18L/36R 3,260 994 Asphalt 18R/36L 3,350 1,021 Asphalt Statistics (2002) Aircraft operations 172,744 Based aircraft 325 Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] North Perry Airport (IATA: HWO, ICAO: KHWO, FAA LID: HWO) is a public airport located in the City of Pembroke Pines, five miles (8 km) west of the central business district of Hollywood, in Broward County, Florida, United States. The airport is owned by the Broward County Aviation Department.[1] It is a general aviation airport devoted exclusively to private and business light-plane activity.
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History
On December 19, 1939, the HMS Orion, a British light cruiser chased the “Aracua”, a German freighter, into Port Everglades in Florida. The Aracua stayed there until 1941 when it was seized by the military at the start of World War II. During the week of May 4, 1942, German submarines torpedoed seven ships in the area. In response to the nearby attacks, many training bases were set up by the United States military.
In 1943, Henry D. Perry, a dairy farmer, sold 640 acres (2.6 km2) of land to the U.S. Navy for a flight-training field between Hollywood Boulevard and Pembroke Road. It became known as North Perry Field, and functioned as a training facility for the main base of Naval Air Station Miami (NAS Miami). There also was South Perry Field, which was located to the southeast of North Perry (the Florida Turnpike runs right through this area today). South Perry was a grass field (no facilities/structures) that was only intended to be for North Perry overflow.
North Perry remained inactive after the war, until 1950 when it was acquired by Broward County to become a civilian airport. It was then upgraded for small plane use, as a station for advertising blimps, and for United States Coast Guard helicopters practicing search and rescue skills. The facility suffered minor damage during Hurricane Wilma in 2005.
In 2007, North Perry Airport was named the 2008 "General Aviation Airport of the Year" by the Florida Department of Transportation.
Facilities and aircraft
North Perry Airport covers an area of 536 acres (217 ha) which contains four runways[1]:
- Runway 9L/27R: 3,241 x 100 ft (988 x 30 m), Surface: Asphalt
- Runway 9R/27L: 3,255 x 100 ft (992 x 30 m), Surface: Asphalt
- Runway 18L/36R: 3,260 x 100 ft (994 x 30 m), Surface: Asphalt
- Runway 18R/36L: 3,350 x 100 ft (1,021 x 30 m), Surface: Asphalt
Other information:
- Runways 9R/27L and 18R/36L are lit for 24 hour operation
- There are 164 T-Hangars for aircraft storage
- The Air Traffic Control Tower is operational from 7:00am - 9:00pm
- There is extensive flight training activity at the airport.
For the 12-month period ending June 21, 2002, the airport had 172,744 aircraft operations, an average of 473 per day: 99.8% general aviation, 0.2% military, <0.1% air taxi and <0.1% scheduled commercial. There are 325 aircraft based at this airport: 82% single-engine, 14% multi-engine, 4% helicopter and <1% jet.[1]
References
External links
- North Perry Airport page at Broward County website
- North Perry AirportPDF (874 KiB) brochure from CFASPP (April 2005)
- FAA Airport Diagram (PDF), effective 20 October 2011
- Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for KHWO
- ASN accident history for HWO
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures for KHWO
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