Corcoran Airport | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public / permanently closed | ||||||||||
Owner | Lakeland Dusters, Inc. | ||||||||||
Serves | Corcoran, California | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 197 ft / 60 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 36°06′10″N119°35′41″W / 36.10278°N 119.59472°W /36.10278; -119.59472 | ||||||||||
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Corcoran Airport (IATA:CRO,ICAO:KCRO,FAALID:CRO) was a public useairport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) west of thecentral business district ofCorcoran, a town inKings County,California,United States. It is privately owned by Lakeland Dusters, Inc.[1] The airport has been permanently closed.[2]
Corcoran Airport covers an area of 220 acres (89 ha) at anelevation of 197 feet (60 m) abovemean sea level. It has oneasphalt pavedrunway designated 13/31 which measures 3,800 by 50 feet (1,158 x 15 m).
For the 12-month period ending October 3, 2007, the airport had 5,600 aircraft operations, an average of 15 per day, all of which weregeneral aviation. At that time there were 18 aircraft based at this airport: 61% single-engine, 28%jet and 11%helicopter.[1]
DuringWorld War II, the airport was used an auxiliary training airfield forLemoore Army Airfield, California.
This article incorporatespublic domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency