Chickasha Municipal Airport

Chickasha Municipal Airport

1995 USGS image
IATA: CHK – ICAO: KCHK – FAA LID: CHK
Summary
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 097°58′04″W / 35.09722°N 97.96778°W / 35.09722; -97.96778Coordinates: 35°05′50″N 097°58′04″W / 35.09722°N 97.96778°W / 35.09722; -97.96778
Website Chickasha.org/airport/
Map
CHK

Location of airport in Oklahoma

Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
17/35 5,101 1,555 Concrete
18/36 2,840 866 Turf
2/20 2,525 770 Turf
Statistics (2010)
Aircraft operations 4,000
Based aircraft 36

Chickasha Municipal Airport (IATA: CHK[2], ICAO: KCHK, FAA LID: CHK) is a city owned, public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northwest of the central business district of Chickasha, a city in Grady County, Oklahoma, 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.[3]

Facilities and aircraft

Chickasha Municipal Airport covers an area of 720 acres (291 ha) at an elevation of 1,152 feet (351 m) above mean sea level. It has one paved runway designated 17/35 with a concrete surface measuring 5,101 by 100 feet (1,555 x 30 m). It also has two unpaved runways with turf surfaces: 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]

For the 12-month period ending November 8, 2010, the airport had 4,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 10 per day. At that time there were 36 aircraft based at this airport: 80% single-engine, 17% multi-engine, and 3% helicopter.[1]

History

Opened in October, 1941 as Wilson-Bonifils 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 various times.

Appears that there may have been four auxiliaries associated with Chickasha - Aux #1, Aux #2, Aux #3 & Aux #4 but unconfirmed and location unknown.

Inactivated 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).

See also

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wilson-Bonifils Field.
  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for CHK (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective May 31, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Airline and Airport Code Search". International Air Transport Association (IATA). Retrieved November 29, 2012.
  3. ↑ "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.

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