Capitol Airport

Capitol Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: none – FAA LID: 02C
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Wisconsin Aviation Investments LLC
Serves Brookfield, Wisconsin
Elevation AMSL 850 ft / 259 m
Coordinates 43°05′15″N 088°10′40″W / 43.08750°N 88.17778°W / 43.08750; -88.17778
Map
02C
02C

Location of airport in Wisconsin/United States

Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
3/21 3,010 917 Asphalt
9/27 3,395 1,035 Turf
18/36 1,600 488 Turf
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2007) 15,150
Based aircraft (2016) 124

Capitol Airport (FAA LID: 02C) is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Brookfield, a city in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. It is privately owned by Wisconsin Aviation Investments LLC.[1] The airport is also known as, or formerly known as Capitol Drive Airport.

It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional reliever airport facility.[2]

Facilities and aircraft

Capitol Airport covers an area of 207 acres (84 ha) at an elevation of 850 feet (259 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 3/21 which measures 3,010 x 44 ft. (917 x 13 m), plus two turf runways: 9/27 measuring 3,395 x 100 ft. (1,035 x 30 m) and 18/36 measuring 1,600 x 80 ft. (488 x 24 m).[1]

The facility has no published instrument procedures and no instrument navigational aids.

For the 12-month period ending September 7, 2007, the airport had 15,150 aircraft operations, an average of 41 per day: 99% general aviation and 1% military. In November 2016, there were 124 aircraft based at this airport: 114 single-engine, 1 multi-engine, 4 helicopter and 5 ultralight.[1]

Brookfield Aero, LLC is the fixed-base operator.

Incidents

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for 02C (Form 5010 PDF), effective Nov 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ "List of NPIAS Airports" (PDF). FAA.gov. Federal Aviation Administration. 21 October 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  3. ↑ NTSB. Probable Cause case CHI02CA279.
  4. ↑ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Pilot faulted for Capitol Drive Airport accident. December 10, 2003.
  5. ↑ NTSB. Probable cause case CHI93FA038.

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