Cape Fear Regional Jetport
Cape Fear Regional Jetport Howie Franklin Field | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Owner | Brunswick County Airport Commission | ||||||||||
Serves | Oak Island, North Carolina | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 26 ft / 8 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 33°55′51″N 078°04′24″W / 33.93083°N 78.07333°W | ||||||||||
Website | CapeFearJetport.com | ||||||||||
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Cape Fear Regional Jetport[1][2][3] (ICAO: KSUT, FAA LID: SUT), also known as Howie Franklin Field,[1][2] is a public use airport in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States.[1] It is owned by the Brunswick County Airport Commission and located one nautical mile (2 km) northeast of the central business district of Oak Island, North Carolina.[1] Formerly known as Brunswick County Airport,[4] it is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[5]
Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned SUT by the FAA[1] but has no designation from the IATA[6] (which assigned SUT to Sumbawanga Airport in Sumbawanga, Tanzania).[7][8]
Facilities and aircraft
Cape Fear Regional Jetport covers an area of 185 acres (75 ha) at an elevation of 26 feet (8 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 5/23 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,505 by 100 feet (1,678 x 30 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending November 23, 2010, the airport had 77,000 aircraft operations, an average of 210 per day: 96% general aviation and 4% military. At that time there were 67 aircraft based at this airport: 92.5% single-engine, 3% multi-engine, 3% ultralight, and 1.5% helicopter.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h FAA Airport Form 5010 for SUT – Cape Fear Rgnl Jetport/Howie Franklin Fld PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective November 15, 2012.
- ^ a b "Cape Fear Rgnl Jetport/Howie Franklin Fld (SUT)" (PDF). Airport Directory. North Carolina Department of Transportation. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
- ^ "Cape Fear Regional Jetport". Official site. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
- ^ "KSUT – Brunswick County Airport". FAA data republished by AirNav. July 29, 2010. Archived from the original on August 22, 2010.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Oak Island, North Carolina (IATA: none, ICAO: KSUT, FAA: SUT)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
- ^ "IATA Airport Code Search (SUT: Sumbawanga)". International Air Transport Association. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
- ^ "Sumbawanga Airport, Tanzania (IATA: SUT, ICAO: HTSU)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
External links
- Cape Fear Regional Jetport, official site
- Aerial photo as of March 1999 from USGS The National Map via MSR Maps
- FAA Terminal Procedures for SUT, effective August 8, 2024
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for SUT
- AirNav airport information for KSUT
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures