Capital City Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Fairview Township, York County, nearNew Cumberland, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 347 ft / 106 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°13′02″N076°51′05″W / 40.21722°N 76.85139°W /40.21722; -76.85139 | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www.flycxy.com | ||||||||||||||
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| Source:Federal Aviation Administration[1] | |||||||||||||||
Capital City Airport (IATA:HAR,ICAO:KCXY,FAALID:CXY) is a publicairport inFairview Township, York County, Pennsylvania, three miles (5 km) southeast ofHarrisburg, the capital ofPennsylvania.[1]
Most U.S. airports use the same three-letterlocation identifier for theFAA andIATA, but Capital City Airport is CXY to the FAA and HAR to the IATA (which assigned CXY toCat Cays Airport,Bimini Islands,Bahamas.)
The airport is the home airport for the Pennsylvania Bureau of Aviation and thePennsylvania State Police.[2] It averages more than 57,000 corporate, charter, and private aircraft operations a year. Owned and operated by theSusquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority (SARAA), Capital City Airport is the designated reliever and sister airport ofHarrisburg International Airport, and serves Dauphin, Cumberland, and York counties.
A study by the PA Department of Transportation in 2000 concluded that Capital City Airport related activities generate nearly $24 million a year in economic output.
Capital City Airport covers 320 acres (130 ha) and has two asphalt runways: 8/26 is 5,000 x 150 ft (1,524 x 46 m) and 12/30 is 3,778 x 100 ft (1,152 x 30 m).[1]
In the year ending May 3, 2023, the airport had 27,348 aircraft operations, average 75 a day: 88%general aviation, 10% military, and 2%air taxi. 97 aircraft were based at the airport: 74 single-engine, 13 multi-engine, 6 jet, and 4 military.[3]
Originally Capital Landing Field, the airport opened in mid-1930 and was Harrisburg's first airline airport. On October 25, 1930, aFord Trimotor airplane flying the first transcontinentalair mail stopped at the airport.[4] In 1934 theCommonwealth ofPennsylvania purchased it and renamed it Harrisburg-York State Airport. It was a stop on longer air routes, principally betweenPittsburgh andPhiladelphia. The airline wasTranscontinental and Western Airlines which became TWA and remained until 1968. (DC-9s replaced TWA's last Constellations in 1967; the 4970-ft runway was one of the shortest in the country to see airline jets.) Allegheny and Capital/United appeared in the 1940s; United pulled out in 1966.
In the 1940s the airport handled war materials for the former adjacentNew Cumberland Army Depot and hosted theNaval Photographic Reconnaissance Training School. TheArmy Air Corps stationed the 101st and 103d Observation Squadrons at Harrisburg early in the war to train pilots in observation and aerial photography. Later the Army Air Force formed the6th Fighter Wing and47th Bombardment Wing at the airport before their deployment overseas. New Cumberland Army depot remains although it has gone through several name changes over the years. It has been known as Defense Distribution Center (DDC) New Cumberland, Defense Distribution Region East (DDRE), and the Defense Distribution Supply Point (DDSP) Susquehanna. Currently it is known as the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Susquehanna, one of the largest military distribution centers for supplies and equipment for theU.S. Armed Forces
Olmsted Air Force Base, just across the river inMiddletown was also close, and in 1968 Allegheny and TWA moved there to newly namedHarrisburg International Airport. Capital City Airport then got its current name and became a general aviation airport.
Since 1999 Capital City Airport has been owned and operated by theSusquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority (SARAA). CXY is the designated reliever and sister airport of Harrisburg International Airport, and serves Dauphin, Cumberland, and York counties.
40°13′13″N76°51′17″W / 40.22032°N 76.85468°W /40.22032; -76.85468