New Castle-Henry County Municipal Airport (ICAO: KUWL, FAA LID: UWL) is a public use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) southeast of the central business district of New Castle, a city in Henry County, Indiana, United States.[1] It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[2]
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | New Castle/Henry County | ||||||||||
| Serves | New Castle, Indiana | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,088 ft / 332 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°52′33″N 085°19′35″W / 39.87583°N 85.32639°W | ||||||||||
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  UWL Location of airport in Indiana/United States  UWL UWL (the United States) | |||||||||||
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Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned UWL by the FAA[1] but has no designation from the IATA.[3][4]
Facilities and aircraft
editNew Castle-Henry County Municipal Airport covers an area of 32 acres (13 ha) at an elevation of 1,088 feet (332 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 9/27 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,000 by 65 feet (1,219 x 20 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2009, the airport had 5,854 aircraft operations, an average of 16 per day: 96% general aviation and 4% air taxi. At that time there were 24 aircraft based at this airport: 79% single-engine, 17% multi-engine, and 4% ultralight.[1]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e FAA Airport Form 5010 for UWL PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective November 15, 2012.
- ^ "Appendix A: List of NPIAS Airports with 5-Year Forecast Activity and Development Cost". National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) Reports. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010. Archived from the original on 2012-10-27.
- ^ "IATA Airport Code Search (UWL)". International Air Transport Association. Retrieved June 9, 2013.
- ^ "New Castle-Henry County Municipal Airport (IATA: none, ICAO: KUWL, FAA: UWL)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved June 9, 2013.
External links
edit- Airport page at City of New Castle website
- Aerial photo from Indiana DOT at the Wayback Machine (archived August 15, 2010)
- Aerial image as of March 1998 from USGS The National Map
- FAA Terminal Procedures for UWL, effective October 31, 2024
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for UWL
- AirNav airport information for UWL
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for UWL
