Airports & Runways

Introduction

Airports shown on the United States, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands’ aeronautical charts. Airport defines area on land or water intended to be used either wholly or in part for the arrival; departure and surface movement of aircraft/helicopters. This airport data is provided as a vector geospatial-enabled file format and depicted on Enroute charts. Airport information is published every eight weeks by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration-Aeronautical Information Services.

Runways seen on the United States, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands’ aeronautical charts A runway is a defined rectangular area on a land airport prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft along its length. Runways are normally numbered in relation to their magnetic direction rounded off to the nearest 10 degrees. This geospatial vector file provides information on the airport runway and helicopter landing areas. This runway dataset is depicted on Enroute charts. Runway information is published every eight weeks by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration-Aeronautical Information Services.

Data Source Characteristics

Data Target Characteristics

  • Database management system: PostgreSQL

  • Database name: io_avstats_db

  • Database table: io_airports

Data Processing

  • Repository: io-avstats

  • Script: run_io_avstats_dev

  • Task: l_a_p (Load airport data into PostgreSQL)

Processing Steps:

  1. Download the airport csv file from here.

  2. Download the ARP-NPIAS-2025-2029-AppendixA.xlsx file from here.

  3. Download the runway csv file from here.

  4. Load the csv files with the task l_a_p into the PostgreSQL database.

For detailed processing steps, refer to the external repository: io-avstats

Configuration Parameter:

download_file_faa_airports = "data/FAA_Airports/Airports.csv"
download_file_faa_airports_url = "https://adds-faa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/faa::airports-1/explore?location=0.000338%2C-1.633886%2C2.00"
download_file_faa_npias = "data/FAA_Airports/ARP-NPIAS-2025-2029-AppendixA.xlsx"
download_file_faa_npias_url = "https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/current"
download_file_faa_runways = "data/FAA_Airports/Runways.csv"
download_file_faa_runways_url = "https://adds-faa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/faa::runways/explore?location=0.000126%2C-1.628764%2C2.00"

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