Chickasha Municipal Airport (IATA: CHK[2], ICAO: KCHK, FAA LID: CHK) is four miles northwest of Chickasha, in Grady County, Oklahoma, United States.[1] The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation facility.[3]
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of Chickasha | ||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Chickasha, Oklahoma | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Grady County, near Chickasha, Oklahoma | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,152 ft / 351 m | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°05′50″N 97°58′04″W / 35.09722°N 97.96778°W | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | Chickasha.org/airport/ | ||||||||||||||||||
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Facilities
editThe airport covers 720 acres (291 ha) at an elevation of 1,152 feet (351 m). Its single paved runway, 17/35, is 5,101 by 100 feet (1,555 x 30 m) concrete. It has two turf runways: 18/36 is 2,840 by 145 feet (866 x 44 m) and 2/20 is 2,525 by 100 feet (770 x 30 m).[1]
In the year ending November 8, 2010 the airport had 4,000 general aviation aircraft operations, average 10 per day. 36 aircraft were then based at this airport: 80% single-engine, 17% multi-engine, and 3% helicopter.[1]
History
editOpened in October, 1941 as Wilson-Bonfils Field, the airport conducted contract basic flying training for the United States Army Air Forces. The contractor was the Wilson-Bonfils Flying Schools. Flying training was performed with Fairchild PT-19s as the primary trainer. Also had several PT-17 Stearmans and a few P-40 Warhawks assigned. The wartime airport had up to six grass runways, with the runways being changed at times.
There may have been four auxiliaries associated with Chickasha - Aux #1, Aux #2, Aux #3 and Aux #4, but unconfirmed and location unknown.
Deactivated on 1 May 1945 with the drawdown of AAFTC's pilot training program. The airfield was turned over to civil control at the end of the war though the War Assets Administration (WAA).
Chickasha had scheduled airline flights on Central Airlines DC-3s for a year or two, ending in 1955.
On May 3, 1999, the airport was hit by an F-2 tornado during the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. No one at the airport was killed, but two hangars and several airplanes were damaged, and an airplane wing was found several miles away when the parent supercell dropped its ninth, and most catastrophic, tornado: an F5, which would pulverize Bridge Creek and the southern/eastern suburbs of Oklahoma City including Moore, Del City, Tinker Air Force Base and Midwest City
See also
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References
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This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
- Manning, Thomas A. (2005), History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas OCLC 71006954, 29991467
- Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites, History’s Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC. OCLC 57007862, 1050653629
- ^ a b c d FAA Airport Form 5010 for CHK PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective May 31, 2012.
- ^ "Airline and Airport Code Search". International Air Transport Association (IATA). Retrieved November 29, 2012.
- ^ "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A" (PDF). National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF, 2.03 MB) on 2012-09-27.
External links
edit- Chickasha Municipal Airport at City of Chickasha website
- Chickasha Municipal (CHK) Archived 2013-03-15 at the Wayback Machine at Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission
- Aerial image as of February 1995 from USGS The National Map
- FAA Terminal Procedures for CHK, effective October 31, 2024
- Chickasha Wings Inc [1], Flight school started in 2003.
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for CHK
- AirNav airport information for KCHK
- ASN accident history for CHK
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures