Purdue University Airport is a public airport in West Lafayette.

It is two miles (3 km) southwest of the central business district of Lafayette, a city in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States.

Owned by Purdue University, the facility no longer offers a commercial airline service. However, the airport is working to regain scheduled airline service .

History

Purdue University Airport was the first university owned airport in the United States.

Facilities

Purdue University Airport has an http://laf.natca.net FAA staffed Air Traffic Control Tower and is the 2nd busiest airport in Indiana, with more than 125,000 aircraft operations annually.

Layout

Purdue University Airport covers an area of 527 acres (213 ha) which contains two runways:^[1]

• Runway 5/23: 4,226 x 100 ft (1,288 x 30 m), Surface: Asphalt
• Runway 10/28: 6,600 x 150 ft (2,012 x 46 m), Surface: Asphalt

Aviation

Today, Purdue University's Aviation Flight Technology Program is one of the best nationwide. [7] Annually, only 60 students are admitted into this exclusive and selective program. On top of training in basic single and multi engine aircraft, all Flight students will fly in a King Air and some will also have the opportunity to fly on the BeechJet carrying VIPs across the nation. No other University has a corporate flight department built into the University to provide private aircraft for faculty and staff. Together with Southern Illinois University, University of North Dakota, Western Michigan University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Kent State University these six universities are world leaders in providing flight training.

Purdue is also one out of fourteen secondary-level education institutions in the United States that participates in the Federal Aviation Administration's CTI (Collegiate Training Initiative) program. Graduates of Purdue's CTI program are recommended to join the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic controller workforce.

Over the past ten years, Purdue?s School of Aeronautics and Astronautics has awarded more aerospace engineering degrees than any other institution in the country, issuing 6% of all undergraduate degrees and 7% of all Ph.D. degrees.

References

1. ↑

1. Journal and Courier: Purdue airport still working to land carrier

External links

• Purdue University Airport (official site)
• from Indiana Department of Transportation
• National Air Traffic Controllers Association LAF HOMEPAGE

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