Georgetown Municipal Airport

Georgetown Municipal Airport is in Williamson County, Texas, three miles north of Georgetown.[1] The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007–2011 categorized it as a reliever airport.[2]

Georgetown Municipal Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCity of Georgetown
ServesGeorgetown, Texas
Elevation AMSL790 ft / 241 m
Coordinates30°40′43.71″N 097°40′45.78″W
Map
GTU
GTU
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
11/29 4,100 1,250 Asphalt
18/36 5,000 1,524 Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations127,700
Based aircraft216

Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but this airport is GTU to the FAA[1] and has no IATA code.[3]

Facilities

The airport covers 640 acres (260 ha) at an elevation of 790 feet (241 m). It has two asphalt runways: 11/29 is 4,100 by 75 feet (1,250 x 23 m) and 18/36 is 5,000 by 100 feet (1,524 x 30 m).[1]

In the year ending February 27, 2008 the airport had 127,700 aircraft operations, average 350 per day: 98% general aviation, 1% air taxi and 1% military. 216 aircraft were then based at the airport: 84% single-engine, 12% multi-engine, 3% jet, 1% helicopters.[1]

Incidents

On February 18, 2010 Andrew Joseph Stack flew a Piper Cherokee from Georgetown Municipal Airport into the Internal Revenue Service building in Austin, Texas. This suicide attack killed one IRS employee and Stack himself.

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gollark: If the clocks are basically the same then this is hardly a problem.
gollark: Why? GPS-synced clocks can get accuracy within a few nanoseconds, I believe.
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gollark: Do it nonroughly so they can all do a cycle every microsecond at around the 0ns mark or something.

References
  1. FAA Airport Master Record for GTU (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2009-08-27.
  2. FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems: 2007-2011
  3. "KGTU - Georgetown, Texas - Georgetown Municipal Airport". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
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