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Centennial Airport
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Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerArapahoe County Public Airport Authority
LocationCentennial, Colorado
Elevation AMSL5,883 ft / 1,793 m
Coordinates39°34′12″N 104°50′57″W / 39.57000°N 104.84917°W / 39.57000; -104.84917
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
17L/35R 10,002 3,049 Asphalt
17R/35L 7,004 2,135 Asphalt
10/28 4,800 1,463 Asphalt

Centennial Airport (IATA: APA, ICAO: KAPA), formerly Arapahoe County Airport, lies within Arapahoe and Douglas counties and adjacent to Centennial, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. The airport, opened on May 12, 1967 as Arapahoe County Airport and renamed to its current name July 13, 1984, is not named after the city, having predated it by 17 years. In 1985 a new control tower has been built. It is an international airport with 24/7 US Customs services and ranks the second busiest general aviation airport in the United States in terms of take offs and landings after Van Nuys Airport with average of 874 operations per day[1]. It is served by a 24/7 Federal Aviation Administration control tower and associated air traffic control services, as well as U.S. customs. It has three runways - 17/35 Left and Right, and 10/28. Runway 35R has a Cat I Instrument Approach. A number of flight schools, flying clubs, air charter services, aircraft sales services and aircraft maintenance services are based at Centennial Airport.[citation needed]

Five Fixed Based Operators (FBOs) have operations at Centennial Airport; Denver jetCenter, TAC Air, Signature Flight Support, XJet, and the HeliPlex, which caters to helicopters only.[citation needed]

Aviation Technology Group (ATG) and Adam Aircraft Industries have offices at the airport.[citation needed]

Safety issues

Following a spate of fatal crashes at Centennial airport in 2004 - 2005, including 2 involving Mitsubishi MU-2 aircraft operated by Flightline Inc within a short period, reporters at the Denver Post used National Transportation Safety Board accident data to show that "the airport has had more general-aviation accidents - 69 - associated with it than any other U.S. airport over the past 15 years, about 35 percent more than an airfield in Anchorage, Alaska, that has the second-highest number."[citation needed] The airport’s accident rate is lower - 35th nationally among those with at least 500,000 takeoffs and landings since 1990 - because it is also one of the nation’s busiest.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ FlightAware > Resources > Airport > Centennial Airport (Denver, CO) [KAPA/APA]
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