Somerset Airport (New Jersey)

Somerset Airport
George Walker Field
IATA: none – ICAO: KSMQ – FAA LID: SMQ
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Somerset Air Service, Inc.
Serves Somerset County
Location Somerville, New Jersey
Elevation AMSL 106 ft / 32 m
Coordinates 40°37′34″N 074°40′12″W / 40.62611°N 74.67000°W / 40.62611; -74.67000
Website www.SomersetAirport.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
12/30 2,739 835 Asphalt
8/26 1,923 586 Turf
17/35 1,700 518 Turf
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations 30,339
Based aircraft 131
Sources: FAA[1] and airport web site[2]

Somerset Airport (ICAO: KSMQ, FAA LID: SMQ) is a public-use airport in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. It is located three miles (5 km) north of the central business district of Somerville and is privately owned by Somerset Air Service, Inc.[1] The airport is also known as George Walker Field.[3]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Somerset Airport is assigned SMQ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned SMQ to Sampit Airport in Indonesia).[4][5]

Facilities and aircraft

Somerset Airport covers an area of 210 acres (85 ha) which contains three runways:[1]

For the 12-month period ending September 5, 2008, the airport had 30,339 aircraft operations, an average of 83 per day, all of which were general aviation. As of 8 January 2015, there are 121 aircraft based at this airport: 93% single-engine, and 7% multi-engine airplanes.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for SMQ (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2015-01-08
  2. ↑ Somerset Airport (official site)
  3. ↑ Somerset Airport: History (official site)
  4. ↑ Great Circle Mapper: KSMQ – Somerville, New Jersey (Somerset Airport)
  5. ↑ Great Circle Mapper: SMQ / WAOS – Sampit, Borneo, Indonesia

External links

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