Rostraver Airport
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Rostraver Airport (Template:Comma separated entries) is a public use airport in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States.[1]
Geography
It is located five nautical miles (9 km) east of the central business district of Monongahela, Pennsylvania[1] in Rostraver Township. It is operated by the Westmoreland County Airport Authority, which also operates the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Unity Township, Pennsylvania.
This airport is assigned a three-letter location identifier of FWQ by the Federal Aviation Administration, but it does not have an International Air Transport Association (IATA) airport code.[1][2][3]
Facilities and aircraft
Rostraver Airport covers an area of Script error: No such module "convert". at an elevation of 1,228 feet (374 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 8/26 which measures 4,002 by 75 feet (1,220 x 23 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending May 3, 2021, the airport had 43,920 aircraft operations, an average of 120 per day: 98% general aviation, 2% air taxi and <1% military. At that time there were 45 aircraft based at this airport: 40 single-engine, 4 multi-engine, and 1 glider.[1]
Accidents
- On April 12, 2017, John Graham III, CEO of Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics, was killed in a plane crash while practicing touch-and-go landings alone due to wind gust.[4]
See also
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References
External links
- Westmoreland County Airport Authority
- Rostraver Airport (P53) at Pennsylvania DOT Bureau of Aviation
- FAA Terminal Procedures for FWQ, effective Error: Invalid time.
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for FWQ
- AirNav airport information for FWQ
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for FWQ
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