Abstract: Abstract: The Airports database is a geographic point database of aircraft landing facilities in the United States and U.S. Territories. Attribute data is provided on the physical and operational characteristics of the landing facility, current usage including enplanements and aircraft operations, congestion levels and usage categories. There are 20491 airport landing facilities in this dataset. This geospatial data is derived from the FAA's National Airspace System Resource Aeronautical Data Product (Effective 18 Jaunary 2007).
Purpose: Purpose: The dataset provides users with information about airport locations and attributes and can be used for national and regional analysis applications.
Field Number | Attribute | Description | Data Type |
0 | FID | Internal feature number. | Long Integer representing an object identifier |
1 | Shape | Feature geometry. | Geometry |
2 | SITE_NO | A unique identifying number followed by an asterisk and the 'landing facility type' code. The SITE_NO forms the key to the airport records in the NFDC (5010) database. Example: 04508.*A | Character String |
3 | LAN_FA_TY | Landing Facility Type | Character String |
4 | LOCID | A unique 3-4 character identifier assigned to the landing facility (i.e. airport). | Character String |
5 | EFF_DATE | Information Effective Data (MM/DD/YYYY). This date coincides with the 56-day charting and publication cycle date. | Character String |
6 | FAA_REGION | FAA Region where the facility is located | Character String |
7 | FAA_DISTRI | FAA District or Field Office Code | Character String |
8 | FAA_ST | State Postal abbreviation, as coded by FAA | Character String |
9 | STATE_NAME | Airport's associated state or territory name, as coded by FAA. | Character String |
10 | COUNTY_NAM | Name of the county or parish associated with the airport, as coded by FAA. | Character String |
11 | COUNTY_ST | Associated county's state (post office code) state where the associated county is located; may not be the same as the associated city's state code, as coded by FAA. | Character String |
12 | CITY_NAME | Name of the city associated with the airport, as coded by FAA. | Character String |
13 | FULLNAME | Official Airport Name | Character String |
14 | OWNER_TYPE | Type of Airport Facility Owner | Character String |
15 | FAC_USE | Facility Use -- Public or Private | Character String |
16 | FAC_CYSTZP | City, State, and Zip code associated with the airport. | Character String |
17 | ELEV | Elevation in feet at the highest point on the centerline of the useable landing surface. Measured to the nearest foot with respect to mean sea level (MSL). | Character String |
18 | AERO_CHART | Aeronautical chart on which the airport facility appears. | Character String |
19 | CBD_DIST | Distance from the central business district of the associated city to the airport in nautical miles (1 nautical mile = 6,080 feet). Measured to the nearest nautical mile | Character String |
20 | CBD_DIR | Direction of airport from the central business district of the associated city. Measured to the nearest 1/8 compass point | Character String |
21 | ACT_DATE | Identifies the month and year that the facility was added to the NFDC airport database - only available for facilities opened since 1981 (MM/YYYY). | Character String |
22 | CERT_TYPE | Airport Certification Type and Date - The format is a two-character code followed by a month/year (MM/YYYY) of certification. | Character String |
23 | FED_AGREE | NASP/ Federal Agreement Code - a combination of 1 to 7 codes that indicate the type of federal agreements existing at the airport. | Character String |
24 | INTERNATIO | Customs international airport - Whether the landing facility has been designated by the U.S. Treasury as an international airport of entry for customs. | Character String |
25 | CUST_LNDG | Customs Landing Rights Airport - Whether the landing facility has been designated by the U.S. Treasury as a customs landing rights airport (some landing facilities may have these rights for cargo only). | Character String |
26 | JOINT_USE | Joint Use - Whether the landing facility has a military/civil joint use agreement that allows civil operations at a military airport or military operations at a civil airport. | Character String |
27 | MIL_LNDG_R | Military Landing Rights - Whether the airport has entered into an agreement that grants landing rights to the military. | Character String |
28 | MIL_INT | Military Emergency Interest - Military department(s) that maintains national emergency use interest in this civil facility. Data values in this field are one, two, or three alphanumeric codes indicating military emergency use interest, with each code in a series separated by a '/'. | Character String |
29 | CNTL_TWR | Airport Control Tower located on the airport. | Character String |
30 | S_ENG_GA | Based Single Engine General Aviation Aircraft | Character String |
31 | M_ENG_GA | Based Multi-engine general aviation aircraft | Character String |
32 | JET_EN_GA | Based Jet engine general aviation aircraft | Character String |
33 | HELICOPTER | Based Helicopters - General Aviation | Character String |
34 | OPER_GLIDE | Base Operational Gliders - general aviation | Character String |
35 | OPER_MIL | Based Military Aircraft - including helicopters | Character String |
36 | ULTRALIGHT | Based Ultralight aircraft - general aviation | Character String |
37 | COMM_SERV | Commercial Services - scheduled operations by CAB certified carriers or intrastate carriers and any scheduled commuter/cargo carriers (Annual Operations). | Character String |
38 | AIR_TAXI | Air Taxi operators carrying passengers, mail, or mail for revenue (Annual Operations). | Character String |
39 | LOCAL_OPS_ | General Aviation, Local Operations - Those operating in the local traffic pattern or within a 20 mile radius (Annual Operations). | Character String |
40 | ITIN_OPS_G | General Aviation - Itinerant Operations. Those general aviation operations (excluding commuter or air taxi) not qualifying as local (Annual Operations). | Character String |
41 | MIL_OPS | Military Aircraft Operations (Annual Operations). | Character String |
42 | LATITUDE | The latitude of the point expressed as a signed real number. This value is in decimal degrees with negative values indicating South latitude and positive values indicating North latitude. | Double Precision Floating Point |
43 | LONGITUDE | The longitude of the point expressed as a signed real number. This value is in decimal degrees with negative values indicating West longitude and positive values indicating East longitude. | Double Precision Floating Point |
44 | STFIPS | The 2-character FIPS code of the State or State equivalent, as coded by RITA/BTS | Character String |
45 | ST_POSTAL | State Postal abbreviation, as coded by RITA/BTS | Character String |
46 | CY_05_ENP | Total domestic enplanements (inbound plus outbound) for calendar year 2005 - this field only valid for some airports. | Double Precision Floating Point |
47 | VERSION | The VERSION is a 2-digit number that will be incremented for all records in the database whenever a new release is distributed. | Character String |