Sky Acres Airport

Sky Acres Airport
Sky Acres Airport
	IATA: none; ICAO: none; FAA LID: 44N;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Sky Acres Enterprises, Inc.
Serves	Millbrook, New York
Elevation AMSL	698 ft / 213 m
Map
	44N Location of airport in New York 44N 44N (the United States)
Runways
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations
Aircraft operations	48,300
Based aircraft	95
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

41°42′27″N 073°44′17″W / 41.70750°N 73.73806°W / 41.70750; -73.73806

Sky Acres Airport (FAA LID: 44N) is a public-use airport located six miles (10 km) southwest of the central business district of Millbrook, a village in Dutchess County, New York, United States. It is privately owned by Sky Acres Enterprises, Inc.^[1]

Facilities and aircraft

Sky Acres Airport covers an area of 205 acres (83 ha) and contains one runway designated 17/35 with a 3,830 x 60 ft (1,167 x 18 m) asphalt pavement. For the 12-month period ending September 15, 2005, the airport had 48,300 aircraft operations, an average of 132 per day: 99% general aviation and 1% military. There are 95 aircraft based at this airport: 82% single-engine and 18% multi-engine.^[1]

Accidents

On August 17, 2019, a Cessna 303 plane that was descending into the airport crashed into a private home resulting in the death of the pilot, Francisco Knipping Diaz, a Dominican American attorney from Manhattan and local homeowner Gerard "Jerry" Bocker.^[2]