- Centennial Airport
Infobox Airport
name = Centennial Airport
IATA = APA
ICAO = KAPA
type = Public
owner = Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority
location = Centennial,Colorado
elevation-f = 5,883
elevation-m = 1,793
coordinates = coord|39|34|12|N|104|50|57|W|type:airport_region:USr1-number = 17L/35R
r1-length-f = 10,002
r1-length-m = 3,049
r1-surface =Asphalt
r2-number = 17R/35L
r2-length-f = 7,004
r2-length-m = 2,135
r2-surface = Asphalt
r3-number = 10/28
r3-length-f = 4,800
r3-length-m = 1,463
r3-surface = AsphaltCentennial Airport Airport codes|APA|KAPA lies within Arapahoe and Douglas counties and adjacent to
Centennial, Colorado , a suburb of Denver. The airport, opened onMay 12 ,1967 as Arapahoe County Airport and renamed to its current nameJuly 13 ,1984 , is not named after the city, having predated it by 17 years. In 1985 a new control tower was built. It is an international airport with 24/7US Customs services and ranks the second busiestgeneral aviation airport in the United States in terms of take offs and landings, afterVan Nuys Airport , with average of 874 operations per day. [ [http://flightaware.com/resources/airport/KAPA FlightAware > Resources > Airport > Centennial Airport (Denver, CO) [KAPA/APA ] ] It is served by a 24/7 Federal Aviation Administrationcontrol tower and associatedair traffic control services, as well as U.S. customs. It has threerunway s - 17/35 Left and Right, and 10/28. Runway 35R has a Cat I Instrument Approach. A number offlight school s,flying club s,air charter services, aircraft sales services and aircraft maintenance services are based at Centennial Airport.Fact|date=August 2008Five
fixed base operator s (FBOs) have operations at Centennial Airport; Denver jetCenter, TAC Air,Signature Flight Support , XJet, and the HeliPlex, which caters to helicopters only.Fact|date=August 2008Aviation Technology Group (ATG) andAdam Aircraft Industries have offices at the airport.Fact|date=August 2008Safety issues
Following a spate of fatal crashes at Centennial airport in 2004 - 2005, including 2 involving
Mitsubishi MU-2 aircraft operated byFlightline Inc within a short period, reporters at theDenver Post used National Transportation Safety Board accident data to show that "the airport has had more general-aviation accidents - 69 - associated with it than any other U.S. airport over the past 15 years, about 35 percent more than an airfield inAnchorage, Alaska , that has the second-highest number."Fact|date=August 2008 The airport’s accident rate is lower - 35th nationally among those with at least 500,000 takeoffs and landings since 1990 - because it is also one of the nation’s busiest.Fact|date=August 2008References
* [http://www.centennial-airport.com/ Centennial Airport] (official site)
*FAA-airport|ID=APA|use=PU|own=PU|site=02572.*AExternal links
* Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT): [http://www.colorado-aeronautics.org/centennial.htm Centennial Airport]
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