Falcon Field (Arizona)
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Falcon Field Falcon Field Army Airfield |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of Mesa | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Mesa, Arizona | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,394 ft / 425 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°27′39″N 111°43′42″W / 33.46083°N 111.72833°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www.falconfieldairport.com | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration
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| Aircraft operations (2008) | 319,419 |
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| Based aircraft (2017) | 646 |
Falcon Field (IATA: MSC, ICAO: KFFZ, FAA LID: FFZ) is in Maricopa County, Arizona six miles northeast of Mesa, which owns it. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021 categorized it as a reliever airport. Scheduled service to Bullhead City on Western Express Air ended in January 2007.
Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but Falcon Field is FFZ to the FAA and MSC to the IATA.
The Boeing Corporation operates a heliport (FAA LID: AZ81) and factory adjacent to Falcon Field, known as the Boeing Mesa Facility. Boeing uses the facility to manufacture and maintain the AH-64 Apache military helicopter.
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Falcon Field got its start before World War II when Hollywood producer Leland Hayward and pilot John H. "Jack" Connelly founded Southwest Airways with funding from friends like Henry Fonda, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, Hoagy Carmichael and others. Southwest Airways operated two other airfields in Arizona -- Thunderbird Field No. 1 (now the site of Thunderbird School of Global Management) and Thunderbird Field No. 2 (now the site of Scottsdale Airport) -- to train pilots from China, Russia and 24 other Allied nations. Falcon was to be Thunderbird Field III and would train British pilots.
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