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New River Valley Airport covers 469 acres (190 ha) at an elevation of 2,105 feet (642 m).Its single runway, 6/24, is 6,201 by 150 feet (1,890 x 46 m) asphalt. [1]In the year ending July 31, 2006 the airport had 10,044 aircraft operations, average 27 per day: 62% general aviation and 38% military. 34 aircraft were then based at the airport: 78% single-engine, 19% multi-engine and 3% helicopter.
This is a list of airports in Virginia (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Met Éireann headquarters in the Glasnevin area of Dublin. The history of modern meteorology in Ireland dates back to 8 October 1860, when the first weather observations were transmitted from Valentia Observatory on Valentia Island in County Kerry to the British Meteorological Office. A network of weather stations was established around the ...
This is a list of airports, airfields and aerodromes in the Republic of Ireland, grouped by type and sorted by location. For those marked *, the link is to an article on the locale, rather than just the airport or aerodrome.
The Met Office, until November 2000 officially the Meteorological Office, [2] is the United Kingdom's national weather and climate service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and is led by CEO [3] Penelope Endersby, who took on the role as Chief Executive in December 2018 and is the first woman to do so. [4]
During all-weather operations for an airfield, aircraft have the ability to take off and land in an airport under low visibility conditions, which means below 550m. [4] During World War II, all-weather airfields were essential if the region commonly experienced torrential rainfall, and were also fully cleared of obstacles. [ 5 ]
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Casement Aerodrome (Irish: Aeradróm Mhic Easmainn) or Baldonnel Aerodrome (ICAO: EIME) is a military airbase to the southwest of Dublin, Ireland situated off the N7 main road route to the south and south west. It is the headquarters and the sole airfield of the Irish Air Corps, and is also used for other government purposes.