FALCON FIELD (ARIZONA)

:''For other airports with this name, see Falcon Field''.
'Falcon Field' is a public airport located five miles (8 km) northeast of the central business district of Mesa, a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Falcon Field is assigned 'FFZ' by the FAA and 'MSC' by the IATA.
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Scheduled service to Bullhead City on Western Express Air was discontinued in January 2007.^[2]

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History

Facilities

References

External links

History

Falcon Field was founded in 1941 as a flight training facility for cadets in the British Royal Air Force. It was operated by an American contractor, using Stearman PT-17 biplanes and North American Aviation AT-6 Harvard monoplane trainers. The good weather, wide-open desert terrain, and lack of enemy airpower provided significantly safer and more efficient training than was possible in England. Even so, more than two dozen cadets were killed in training and are now buried in the Mesa city cemetery. Several thousand pilots were trained until the RAF installation was closed at the end of World War II. Since then it has been a civilian airfield, and is now owned and operated by the City of Mesa. The Commemorative Air Force bases its Arizona Wing there, and has a museum on the grounds.

Facilities

Falcon Field covers 564 acres and has two runways and two helipads:

★ Runway 4R/22L: 5,102 x 100 ft. (1,555 x 30 m), Surface: Asphalt

★ Runway 4L/22R: 3,801 x 75 ft. (1,159 x 23 m), Surface: Asphalt

★ Helipad H1: 60 x 60 ft. (18 x 18 m), Surface: Asphalt

★ Helipad H2: 60 x 60 ft. (18 x 18 m), Surface: Asphalt

References

1. Great Circle Mapper: MSC / KFFZ - Mesa, Arizona (Falcon Field)
2. Western Air Express: Press Release, January 2007

External links

★ Falcon Field at City of Mesa web site

★ Mesa ~ Falcon Field at Arizona DOT web site

★ Falcon Field at VisitingPHX.com web site

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★ Tango One Aviation, fixed base operator at Falcon Field

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