Charlotte County Airport

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Charlotte County Airport


6 January 1999
IATA: PGD – ICAO: KPGD – FAA: PGD
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Charlotte County Airport Authority
Serves Charlotte County, Florida
Location Punta Gorda, Florida
Elevation AMSL 26 ft / 8 m
Coordinates 26°55′11″N 081°59′26″W / 26.91972, -81.99056
Website www.FlyPGD.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
3/21 6,695 2,041 Asphalt
15/33 5,688 1,734 Asphalt
9/27 5,044 1,537 Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations 74,743
Based aircraft 295
Sources: FAA,[1] airport website[2]

Charlotte County Airport (IATA: PGD, ICAO: KPGD, FAA LID: PGD) is a public airport located three miles (5 km) southeast of the central business district of Punta Gorda, in Charlotte County, Florida, United States. It is owned by the Charlotte County Airport Authority.[1]

Opened in 1944 as a US Army Air Corps airfield, Charlotte County Airport has mainly been used anywhere from deplanements of single engine planes to small jet engine planes and is home to the Florida International Air Show, an annual event which has featured the US Navy "Blue Angels", US Army "Sky Soldiers" Cobra helicopter team and the Air Force "Thunderbirds".

The airport lost airline service in the 1980s, but Skybus Airlines officially announced on September 20 that they will be beginning two daily flights to Columbus, Ohio starting December 5, 2007. On September 25, the airline also announced new flights to Portsmouth, New Hampshire starting December 17, 2007 and in January 2008 two daily flights to Greensboro, North Carolina, along with the addition of a third daily flight to Columbus. At its peak, Skybus offered six daily non-stop flights to Punta Gorda. The airport's new 16,000-square-foot, $5.5 million terminal was completed days before the Skybus announcement and was expected to service 100,000 passengers in its first year alone.

Punta Gorda's run as a commercial airport ended on April 4, 2008 with the closure of Skybus Airlines. Skybus cited high fuel prices and lagging profits for their closure, and was the 3rd airline during the week of March 30, 2008 to cease operations, joining Aloha Airlines and ATA Airlines.[3][4]

Passenger Service:

  • DayJet (nonstop service to Jacksonville, Lakeland, Tallahassee, Pensacola, Gainesville, Boca Raton, Opa-Locka/Miami Dade County, Naples, Sarasota/Bradenton, Savannah, Macon, and Montgomery with more nonstop cities being added)


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[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Charlotte County Airport covers an area of 1,934 acres (783 ha) which contains three asphalt paved runways:[1]

  • Runway 3/21: 6,695 x 150 ft. (2,041 x 46 m)
  • Runway 15/33: 5,688 x 150 ft. (1,734 x 46 m)
  • Runway 9/27: 5,044 x 150 ft. (1,537 x 46 m)

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had 74,743 aircraft operations, an average of 204 per day: 97% general aviation, 3% air taxi and <1% military. There are 295 aircraft based at this airport: 82% single-engine, 11% multi-engine, 2% jet, 2% helicopter and 2% ultralight.[1]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d FAA Airport Master Record for PGD (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-10-25
  2. ^ Charlotte County Airport (official site)
  3. ^ Bob Fliss. "Coppola announces Skybus plans for Charlotte", Sun-Herald.com, September 18, 2007. 
  4. ^ Devona Walker and Tom Bayles. "Charlotte on verge of getting airline service", HeraldTribune.com, July 4, 2007. 

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