Sterling Airport

IATA: none – ICAO: none – FAA LID: 3B3

Summary

Airport type

Public

Owner

Monadnock Realty Corp

Serves

Sterling, Massachusetts

Elevation AMSL

459 ft / 140 m

Coordinates

42°25′33″N 071°47′34″W / 42.42583°N 71.79278°WCoordinates: 42°25′33″N 071°47′34″W / 42.42583°N 71.79278°W

Map

3B3

Location of airport in Massachusetts

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
16/34	3,086	941	Asphalt

Helipads

Number	Length		Surface
Number	ft	m	Surface
H1	50	15	Asphalt

Statistics (2010)

Aircraft operations	49,260
Based aircraft	78

Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Sterling Airport (FAA LID: 3B3) is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) southwest of the central business district of Sterling, a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. It is privately owned by Monadnock Realty Corp.^[1]

It is a fairly inexpensive place to rent airplanes, as the starting rate is $75/hour for a two-seater Cessna 150. The airport has lots of parking spaces out in the sun or in hangars. The Sterling Airport closes its runways in October when the Sterling Fair is up and running at the airport, during which time, all the aircraft tied down on the field must be flown elsewhere. Even the glider trailers are moved off-field. But after the fair, the airport opens for normal operations once again.

Sterling Airport is also the home of the Greater Boston Soaring Club.

Facilities and aircraft

Sterling Airport covers an area of 100 acres (40 ha) at an elevation of 459 feet (140 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 16/34 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,086 by 40 feet (941 x 12 m) and one helipad designated H1 which is 50 by 50 feet (15 x 15 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending June 1, 2010, the airport had 49,260 aircraft operations, an average of 134 per day: 99% general aviation, <1% air taxi, and <1% military. At that time there were 78 aircraft based at this airport: 37% single-engine, 3% multi-engine, 56% glider, and 4% ultralight.^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for 3B3 (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 25 August 2011.

External links

Aerial image as of March 1995 from USGS The National Map

Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for 3B3
- AirNav airport information for 3B3
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for 3B3

Airports in Massachusetts

Primary	Boston–Logan Hanscom Field Barnstable–Boardman/Polano Nantucket Memorial New Bedford Provincetown Martha's Vineyard Worcester

Reliever	Beverly Lawrence Norwood Memorial

General	Chatham Fitchburg Gardner Great Barrington–Koladza Mansfield Marshfield–Harlow Turners Falls Harriman–West Northampton Orange Pittsfield Plymouth Southbridge Westover Minute Man Taunton–King Westfield–Barnes

Public use	Cape Cod Cranland Falmouth Hopedale Industrial Park Katama Marlboro Merrimack Valley Monponsett Pond Myricks Plum Island Spencer Sterling Tanner–Hiller

Private use	Canapitsit Lake Gardner Metropolitan Muskeget Snow Tuckernuck Ware

Military	Barnes ANGB Joint Base Cape Cod Otis ANGB Camp Edwards Heliport CGAS Cape Cod Westover ARB

Defunct	Acushnet NAAF Beverly Bowles Agawam Bolton Braintree Brockton Boston–Metropolitan NAS Chatham Clark Clifton Coonamessett Crosman USAR Center Fall River Grafton Hatfield–Pilgrim Haverhill–Dutton Haverhill–Riverside NAAF Hyannis Leicester Lowell NTS Marblehead NAAS Martha's Vineyard Moore AAF NAAF Nantucket NAAF New Bedford No Man's Land NAF Oxford Pine Hill Providence–Seekonk Revere Robbins CGAS Salem Saugus NAS South Weymouth Springfield NAS Squantum CGAS Ten Pound Island Tew-Mac Trade Wind Westboro

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, January 27, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.