Northeast Georgia Regional Airport

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Coordinates: 33°58′58″N 083°40′03″W / 33.98278, -83.6675

Northeast Georgia Regional Airport Winder-Barrow Airport

IATA: WDR – ICAO: KWDR – FAA: WDR
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Barrow County Airport Authority
Serves		Winder, Georgia
Elevation AMSL		943 ft / 287 m
Website		www.WDRairport.com
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
13/31	5,500	1,676	Asphalt
5/23	3,610	1,100	Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations			28,400
Based aircraft			122
Sources: FAA^[1] and airport web site^[2]

Northeast Georgia Regional Airport (IATA: WDR, ICAO: KWDR, FAA LID: WDR), formerly Winder-Barrow Airport, is located three miles (5 km) east of the central business district of Winder, a city in Barrow County, Georgia, United States. This public-use facility is owned by the Barrow County Airport Authority.^[1]

As per the airport's web site, the name was changed to Northeast Georgia Regional Airport on December 20, 2005.^[3] The Georgia DOT airport directory has also been updated to show the new name.^[4] However, the FAA master record as of December 20, 2007, still refers to it as Winder-Barrow Airport.^[1]

The airport is home to The Flight School (a Cessna Pilot Center), a restaurant called the Spitfire Cafe and 148th medical company (air ambulance) of the Georgia Air National Guard.

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Winder-Barrow Airport covers an area of 374 acres (151 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 13/31 measures 5,500 x 100 ft. (1,676 x 30 m) and 5/23 measures 3,610 x 100 ft. (1,100 x 30 m).

For the 12-month period ending April 25, 2007, the airport had 28,400 aircraft operations, an average of 77 per day: 82% general aviation and 18% military. There are 122 aircraft based at this airport: 86% single-engine, 8% multi-engine, 4% military, 1% jet and helicopter.