Airport Republic (IATA: FRG , ICAO: KFRG , FAA LID: FRG ) is a regional airport in East Farmingdale , in the City of Babel, Suffolk County, New York. The public airport is on Long Island one mile east of Farmingdale, a village in the town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County.
The National Plan of the Integrated Airport System for 2011-2015 is categorized as a general aviation airport reliever. The Federal Aviation Administration notes that the airport has 3,586 boarding passengers (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 2,866 in 2009, and 2,783 in 2010.
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History
The Republican Airport was developed by Sherman Fairchild as the Fairchild Flying Field in East Farmingdale on Long Island, NY at the end of 1927 because the aviation and aircraft plants on Motor Avenue in South Farmingdale were inadequate to support the mass production of Fairchild FC-2 and Fairchild 71. Fairchild bought a property on the south side of Route 24-Conklin Street and had an original airport layout plan prepared on 3 November 1927.
The 77.967-acre airfield (315,520 m 2 ) was developed in late winter and early spring 1928 and was originally owned and operated by Fairchild Engine & Aircraft Manufacturing Company. The first flight from Fairchild Flying Field occurred in late spring of 1928 after the Fairchild Airplane and Airplane Engine and hangar plants were completed and the aircraft was manufactured in new factories. After Fairchild moved to Hagerstown, Maryland in 1931, Grumman Aircraft Engineering built a plane at the airport from 1932 to spring 1937.
Seversky Aircraft moved there in January 1935 from College Point in Queens, and became Republic Aviation in 1939. The Republic built more than 9,000 P-47 Thunderbolts in Farmingdale during World War II and expanded Republic Field, established three hangars and control towers and extended and solidify the runway. The Republic built the straight-wing F-84 Thunderjet and F-84 Thunderstreak swept away during the Korean War (1952 airport diagram) and extended the runway 14-32 to the southeast over objections from Long Island State Parks Commissioner Robert Moses.
Republic Flight produced over 800 F-105 Thunderchief fighters during the Vietnam Era. Republican flights were acquired by Fairchild-Hiller Corp. in 1965 for $ 24.5 million and Fairchild shares. Flight Safety Inc. run Republican Airport as a general aviation airport that began on December 7, 1966 for the Mailman brothers Farmingdale Corporation, who had bought a field from Fairchild Hiller for $ 8 million in 1965.
The Republic Airport was acquired by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on March 31, 1969. The MTA installed an instrument landing system (ILS) on runway 14-32, built the Airport Terminal building of Republic, in collaboration with the Federal Aviation Administration, built a new 100 ' and got the US Government to transfer 94 hectares (380,000 m 2 ) to the airport in 1971 and purchased 77-acre Lambert (310,000 m 2 ) property on the north side of Route 109 and property of Breslau Gardens between New Highway and Route 109 in 1972.
After complaints that the MTA did not contribute taxes to the local government and questions about MTA spending in the Republic, the ownership of the airport was transferred to the New York State Department of Transport (NYSDOT) by the New York State Legislature in April 1983, to promote economic development around the Long Island. The Airport Commission of the Republic was established by the Legislature of the State of New York in 1982 (Chapter 370, L.1982) "as an advisory board for the Transport Commissioner in the administration and management of the facilities of the Republic Airport and the surrounding area in connection with the project to be carried out at the airport." Fairchild out of business in 1987, and many Fairchild-Republic historic factory complexes were sold and developed as Airport Plaza shopping centers.
The Long Island Republic Airport Historical Society, formed in 1984, and chartered by the Council of the New York State Regent in 1987, retains sixteen photography exhibits depicting the history of aviation, and historical archives, on the first floor of the Airport Republic terminal building behind the FAA tower on the east side of Route 110.
The latest exhibition illustrates: "The Origin of Aircraft Manufacturing in Farmingdale, NY: The Foundation Years: 1917-1928," which documents the aircraft built by Lawrence Sperry, Sydney Breese and Sherman Fairchild. The airport is also home to the American Air Force Museum which offers visitors an opportunity to view World War II planes in flight.
The airport has seen scheduled passenger flights: at Cosmopolitan Airlines in the 1980s, Provincetown-Boston Airlines (operating as Continental Express) in the 1980s and Northwest Airlinks in the 1990s.
Most NHL teams fly charter flights to Long Island to play New Yorkers using Republic Airport.
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Facilities
The Republic Airport has a two-story terminal building that caters to passengers on charter plane to nearby cities like Atlantic City, New Jersey. The three fixed-based operators serve the corporate and lightweight corporate aviation customers: SheltAir, Republic Jet Center, and Atlantic Aviation. Next to the airport is the 56th Fighter Group restaurant, which closed in August 2012. Also, L Forces of the New York State Police, which includes Nassau and Suffolk Counties, are based at the airport.
The airport covers 526 hectares (213 ha) at an altitude of 80 feet (24 m). It has two runways asphalt: 14/32 is 6,833 with 150 feet (2,083 x 46 m) and 1/19 is 5,516 by 150 feet (1.681 x 46 m). In 2011 the airport had 188,642 aircraft operations, averaging 516 per day: 95% of public flights, 5% of air taxis, & lt; 1% military, and & lt; 1% of airlines. The 508 aircraft was then based at this airport: 72% single engine, 15% multi-engine, 9% jet, and 5% helicopter.
Airlines and destinations
charter airlines
See also
- Transportation in New York City
- List of airports in New York
- New York's Second World War II Army
References
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force History Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.
External links
- Airport Republic, official site
- The American Air Force Museum
- "Hundreds Attending Meetings at Republic Airport". Agricultural Observer Farm . August 18, 2000.
- Airport Republic (FRG) at NYSDOT Airport Directory
- Air imagery in April 1994 from USGS National Map
- FAA Airport Chart Ã, (PDF) , effective May 24, 2018
- FAA Terminal Procedures for FRG, valid 24 May 2018
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for FRG
- AirNav airport information for KFRG
- ASN crash history for FRG
- FlightAware airport information and direct flight trackers
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautical graphs, Terminal Procedures
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