Schuylkill County Airport

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Schuylkill County Airport (ICAO: KZER, FAA LID: ZER), also known as Schuylkill County Joe Zerbey Airport, is a public use airport located eight nautical miles (9 mi, 15 km) west of the central business district of Pottsville, a city in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is owned by the Schuylkill County Airport Authority.[1] This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[2]

Airport typePublic
OwnerSchuylkill County Airport Authority
ElevationAMSL1,729 ft / 527 m
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Schuylkill County Airport
Schuylkill County Joe Zerbey Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerSchuylkill County Airport Authority
ServesPottsville, Pennsylvania
Elevation AMSL1,729 ft / 527 m
Coordinates40°42′23″N 076°22′23″W
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ZER is located in Pennsylvania
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Location of airport in Pennsylvania
ZER is located in the United States
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ZER (the United States)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
11/29 5,101 1,555 Asphalt
4/22 2,270 692 Turf
Statistics (2011)
Aircraft operations28,100
Based aircraft25
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]
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Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned ZER by the FAA[1] but has no designation from the IATA[3] (which assigned ZER to Zero Airport in Zero, Arunachal Pradesh, India).[4] The airport's ICAO identifier is KZER.[5]

Facilities and aircraft

The airport covers an area of 34 acres (14 ha) at an elevation of 1,729 feet (527 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 11/29 is 5,101 by 75 feet (1,555 x 23 m) with an asphalt surface; 4/22 is 2,270 by 140 feet (692 x 43 m) with a turf surface.[1]

For the 12-month period ending August 10, 2011, the airport had 28,100 aircraft operations, an average of 76 per day: 75% general aviation, 22% military, and 2% air taxi. At that time there were 25 aircraft based at this airport: 68% of these were single-engine aircraft, 20% multi-engine, 4% jet, and 8% helicopters.[1]

Charter service

  • University MedEvac

See also

References

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