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Fort Worth Meacham International Airport (Meacham Field) (IATA: FTW, ICAO: KFTW, FAA LID: FTW) is a general aviation airport located near the intersection of Interstate 820 and Business U.S. Highway 287 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It is named after former Fort Worth Mayor Henry C. Meacham. [2] The airport covers 745 acres (301 ha). [1]
Texarkana Regional Airport [3] Louisiana. Monroe Regional Airport [4] Shreveport Regional Airport [5] Oklahoma. Lawton-Fort Sill Regional Airport [6] Will Rogers World Airport (Oklahoma City) [7] Texas. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (Euless/Grapevine/Irving, near Dallas and Fort Worth) [8] Dallas Love Field (Dallas) [9]
The system uses the airport's listed frequency ( 121.725 or 135.075 ). The system is activated with four "key clicks" on the VHF radio to contact the appropriate ATC facility or six "key strokes" to contact the FSS. There is a timer on the modem connection. If no voice is heard for a preset interval, the system disconnects.
Common traffic advisory frequency (CTAF) is the name given to the VHF radio frequency used for air-to-air communication at United States, and Australian non-towered airports. Many towered airports close their towers overnight, keeping the airport open for cargo operations and other activity.
Frequency allocations vary from region to region. Despite the use of uppercase letters, MULTICOM is not an abbreviation or acronym. In the United States, there is one MULTICOM frequency: 122.9 MHz. (See AIM table 4-1-2 or AIM table 4-1-1) At uncontrolled airports without a UNICOM, pilots are to self-announce on the MULTICOM frequency.
The airline used turboprop-powered 56-seat NAMC YS-11 aircraft leased from Mid-Pacific Air, claiming that larger jetliners could not support the frequency of flights that the carrier wanted to offer. [3] Flights to Austin, San Antonio, and William P. Hobby Airport in Houston began on 14 December 1984. [3]
Fort Worth Spinks Airport covers an area of 822 acres (333 ha) at an elevation of 700 feet (213 m) above mean sea level.It has two runways: 18R/36L is 6,002 by 100 feet (1,829 x 30 m) with an asphalt surface; 18L/36R is 3,660 by 60 feet (1,116 x 18 m) with a turf surface.
The current National Weather Service Fort Worth is located at 3401 Northern Cross Blvd, Fort Worth, TX in the northeastern part of Fort Worth, near Meacham International Airport, and is in charge of issuing local forecasts and weather warnings for north central Texas. [1] It is one of 13 National Weather Service offices located in Texas. [1]