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Northeast Philadelphia Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of Philadelphia | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 120 ft / 37 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°04′55″N075°00′38″W / 40.08194°N 75.01056°W /40.08194; -75.01056 | ||||||||||||||
| Website | phl.org | ||||||||||||||
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  PNE Location of airport in Philadelphia Show map of Philadelphia PNE PNE (Pennsylvania) Show map of Pennsylvania PNE PNE (the United States) Show map of the United States | |||||||||||||||
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| Sources: airport website[1] andFAA[2] | |||||||||||||||
Northeast Philadelphia Airport (IATA:PNE,ICAO:KPNE,FAALID:PNE) is a public airport just north of the intersection of Grant Avenue and Ashton Road inNortheast Philadelphia. It is part of the Philadelphia Airport System along withPhiladelphia International Airport and is thegeneral aviationreliever airport for Philadelphia International. Northeast Philadelphia Airport is the sixth busiest airport inPennsylvania.[3] Twofixed-base operators provide fuel, major aircraft repair, hangar rental, aircraft rental and charter, flight instruction, and aircraft sales.[4]
This airport covers 1,150 acres (470 ha), bounded by Grant Avenue to the south, Academy Road to the east, Comly Road to the north, and theRoosevelt Boulevard (U.S. 1) to the west. (The airport does not extend all the way to these boundaries.) Development includes a Pepsi-Colabottling plant, anindustrial park with aviation-related businesses, the headquarters of the 1st and 8th Districts of thePhiladelphia Police Department, and the former site of theInternal Revenue Service Philadelphia Service Center. ATJ Maxx distribution center and an ice skating rink opened in 2001 on land leased from the airport.[5]
When the airport opened, the surrounding area was largely open farmland. Residential neighborhoods and businesses have since developed close to the airport, so pilots must observenoise abatement procedures.[6]
Northeast Philadelphia Airport started in the 1930s as the Northeast Airport, a grass field with no paved runways, one of three small airports in the area. Just across Roosevelt Boulevard to the west, next to Red Lion Road, was Boulevard Airport, the most important of the three. Further west was Budd Field (built for Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company, later as a golf course and other parts for housing) and Somerton Airport (near Bustleton Avenue and Red Lion Road), no longer in existence, close enough that pilots had to take care not to infringe on adjacent traffic patterns. The site of the Boulevard Airport is now a shopping mall (Red Lion Plaza) and housing. The Northeast Airport became today's large airport.
TheUnited States Army Air Corps began construction of a 545 acres (221 ha)airbase inNortheast Philadelphia during World War II, but the project was never completed and the property was turned over to the city in 1944.[5] After the city finished the work, Philadelphia Northeast Airport opened in June 1945. In 1948 the name was changed toNorth Philadelphia Airport.[7]
The airport expanded in 1960 when Runway 6/24 was extended to its present length. Runway 10/28 was abandoned at this time due to construction on the western end of the runway. The name was changed again in 1980, to the present Northeast Philadelphia Airport.
The airport was the headquarters and maintenance facility forRansome Airlines, which operated scheduled passenger flights asAllegheny Commuter to Washington D.C. viaReagan National Airport (DCA) and to nearbyPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL) as well as to other regional destinations beginning in September 1973 as a feeder forAllegheny Airlines.[5] Ransome's passenger operation from PNE was ended by thePATCO strike of 1981 which cut regional airline schedules by 25 percent; the airline operated independently for some time, fedDelta Air Lines flights in the early 1980s, and was later sold toPan American World Airways and then toTrans World Airlines, ending its life asTrans World Express. PNE continued to be a maintenance base for TWE through the early 1990s.[8] The base shut down in 1995, with a loss of 300 local jobs.
Northeast Philadelphia Airport covers 1,150 acres (470 ha) at an elevation of 120 feet (37 m) abovemean sea level. It has twoasphaltrunways: 6/24 is 7,000 by 100 feet (2,134 x 30 m) and 15/33 is 4,999 by 150 feet (1,524 x 46 m).[2]
In the year ending December 7, 2022, the airport had 83,551 aircraft operations, average 229 per day: 94%general aviation, 5%air taxi and less than 1%military. 143 aircraft were then based at the airport: 90 single-engine, 28 multi-engine, 17jet and 8helicopter.[2]
