Waukesha County Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Waukesha County Airport
nativename = Crites Field


IATA = UES
ICAO = KUES
FAA = UES
type = Public
owner-oper = Waukesha County
location = Waukesha, Wisconsin
elevation-f = 911
elevation-m = 278
website = [http://www.critesfield.com/ www.CritesField.com]
r1-number = 10/28
r1-length-f = 5,848
r1-length-m = 1,782
r1-surface = Concrete
r2-number = 18/36
r2-length-f = 3,598
r2-length-m = 1,097
r2-surface = Asphalt
stat-year = 2005
stat1-header = Aircraft operations
stat1-data = 91,024
stat2-header = Based aircraft
stat2-data = 256
footnotes = Sources: FAAFAA-airport|ID=UES|use=PU|own=PU|site=27661.*A, effective 2007-10-25] and airport website [http://www.critesfield.com/ Waukesha County Airport / Crites Field] , official website]

Waukesha County Airport Airport codes|UES|KUES|UES, also known as Crites Field, is a public-use airport located two miles (3 km) north of the central business district of Waukesha, a city in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. It is owned and operated by Waukesha County.

Flight for Life-Wisconsin announced in October 2007 that it will move its operations to this airport in the summer of 2008. [cite web
url=http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2007/10/08/daily28.html?surround=lfn
title=Flight for Life moves to Waukesha
date=October 11, 2007
publisher=The Business Journal of Milwaukee]

Facilities and aircraft

Waukesha County Airport covers an area of 543 acres (220 ha) which contains two runways: 10/28 with a concrete pavement measuring 5,848 x 100 ft (1,782 x 30 m) and 18/36 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,598 x 75 ft (1,097 x 23 m).

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 91,024 aircraft operations, an average of 249 per day: 98% general aviation, 2% air taxi and <1% military. There are 256 aircraft based at this airport: 82% single-engine, 12% multi-engine, 6% jet and <1% glider.

References

External links

*PDF| [http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/travel/air/docs/airports/waukesha.pdf Waukesha County Airport] |137 KiB information from Wisconsin DOT
*WikiMapia|43.041|-88.2371|15|Aerial photo
*FAA-diagram|05078
*US-airport-ga|UES