List of airports in Louisiana
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This is a list of airports in Louisiana (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.
Airports
[edit]This list contains the following information:
- City served – The city generally associated with the airport, as per the airport's master record with the Federal Aviation Administration. This is not always the actual location since some airports are located in smaller towns outside of the city they serve. It is not meant to be a complete list of cities served, which can be found in or added to each airport's Wikipedia article.
- FAA – The location identifier assigned by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). These are linked to each airport's page at the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development.
- IATA – The airport code assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Those that do not match the FAA code are shown in bold.
- ICAO – The location indicator assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
- Airport name – The official airport name. Those shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled passenger service on commercial airlines.
- Role – One of four FAA airport categories, as per the 2021–2025 National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) report released September 2020:
- P-s: Commercial service – primary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have more than 10,000 passenger boardings (enplanements) each year. Each primary airport is sub-classified by the FAA as one of the following four "hub" types (s):
- L: Large hub that accounts for at least 1% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
- M: Medium hub that accounts for between 0.25% and 1% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
- S: Small hub that accounts for between 0.05% and 0.25% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
- N: Nonhub that accounts for less than 0.05% of total U.S. passenger enplanements, but more than 10,000 annual enplanements.
- CS: Commercial service – nonprimary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have at least 2,500 passenger boardings each year.
- R: Reliever airports are designated by the FAA to relieve congestion at a large commercial service airport and to provide more general aviation access to the overall community.
- GA: General aviation airports are the largest single group of airports in the U.S. airport system.
- P-s: Commercial service – primary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have more than 10,000 passenger boardings (enplanements) each year. Each primary airport is sub-classified by the FAA as one of the following four "hub" types (s):
- Enplanements – The number of enplanements (commercial passenger boardings) that occurred at the airport in calendar year 2019, as per FAA records released 2020.
See also
[edit]- Louisiana World War II Army Airfields
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists: North America#Louisiana
References
[edit]Federal Aviation Administration (FAA):
- FAA Airport Data (Form 5010) from National Flight Data Center (NFDC), also available from AirportIQ 5010
- National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (2017–2021), updated September 2016
- Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) Data for CY 2019 and 2020, updated November 8, 2021
Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LaDOTD):
Other sites used as a reference when compiling and updating this list:
- Aviation Safety Network – used to check IATA airport codes
- Great Circle Mapper: Airports in Louisiana – used to check IATA and ICAO airport codes
- Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Louisiana – used for information on former airports
Notes
[edit]- ^ Cannon, Chuck (17 July 2023). "Fort Johnson airfield redesignated for former Polk aviator, Desert Storm hero". army.mil. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "AirNav: L28 - Bordelon Airpark". Archived from the original on 2005-12-24. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
- ^ "AirNav: Newellton Airport". Archived from the original on 2003-12-05. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
- ^ "AirNav: 5F8 - Thackers Airport". Archived from the original on 2010-11-26. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
- ^ "AirNav: Lyon Airport". Archived from the original on 2004-04-20. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
- ^ "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Louisiana: Baton Rouge area". Archived from the original on 2009-11-07. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ^ "AirNav: L40 - Colfax Airport". Archived from the original on 2007-06-24. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
- ^ "AirNav: 5F3 - Haynesville Airport". Archived from the original on 2005-10-27. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
- ^ "AirNav: 3L1 - Charlie Hammonds Seaplane Base". Archived from the original on 2008-03-30. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
- ^ "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Southwestern Louisiana". Airfields-freeman.com. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
- ^ "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Northern Louisiana". Airfields-freeman.com. 1930-01-06. Retrieved 2019-07-11.