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Sikorsky Memorial Airport

Index Sikorsky Memorial Airport

Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Airport is a public airport in Fairfield County, Connecticut, owned by the city of Bridgeport. [1]

52 relations: Acre, Air taxi, Aircraft engine, Airport, Boston, Bradley International Airport, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Business Express Airlines, Connecticut, Connecticut Wing Civil Air Patrol, Connecticut World War II Army Airfields, Continental Airlines, Downtown Manhattan Heliport, Elevation, FAA airport categories, Fairfield County, Connecticut, Federal Aviation Administration, FedEx Express, Fixed-base operator, General aviation, George H. W. Bush, Hectare, Helicopter, Helipad, Igor Sikorsky, Jet aircraft, Jim Mollison, John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Kilometre, List of airports in Connecticut, Logan International Airport, Lordship, Connecticut, Military aviation, National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems, New Bedford Regional Airport, New York Skyports Seaplane Base, Newark, New Jersey, Orthophoto, Philadelphia, Piedmont Airlines, Runway, Sea level, Sikorsky Aircraft, Stratford, Connecticut, Tailwind Air Service, The National Map, United Express, United States Geological Survey, US Airways, ..., US Helicopter, Washington, D.C.. Expand index (2 more) »

Acre

The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems.

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Air taxi

An air taxi is a small commercial aircraft which makes short flights on demand.

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Aircraft engine

An aircraft engine is the component of the propulsion system for an aircraft that generates mechanical power.

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Airport

An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Bradley International Airport

Bradley International Airport is a civil/military airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, in Hartford County, Connecticut.

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Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport is a historic seaport city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Business Express Airlines

Business Express Airlines, often referred to as Business Express or BizEX, was an American regional airline founded as Atlantic Air in 1982.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Connecticut Wing Civil Air Patrol

The Connecticut Wing Civil Air Patrol is the highest echelon of the Civil Air Patrol in the state of Connecticut.

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Connecticut World War II Army Airfields

During World War II, Connecticut was a major United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) training center for pilots and aircrews.

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Continental Airlines

Continental Airlines was a major United States airline founded in 1934 and eventually headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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Downtown Manhattan Heliport

The Downtown Manhattan Heliport, also known as the Downtown Manhattan/Wall St.

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Elevation

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical datum).

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FAA airport categories

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has a system for categorizing public-use airports (along with heliports and other aviation bases) that is primarily based on the level of commercial passenger traffic through each facility.

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Fairfield County, Connecticut

Fairfield County is the most populous and the most affluent county in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States is a national authority with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation.

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FedEx Express

FedEx Express, formerly Federal Express, is a cargo airline based in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

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Fixed-base operator

A fixed-base operator (FBO) is an organization granted the right by an airport to operate at the airport and provide aeronautical services such as fueling, hangaring, tie-down and parking, aircraft rental, aircraft maintenance, flight instruction, and similar services.

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General aviation

General aviation (GA) is all civil aviation operations other than scheduled air services and non-scheduled air transport operations for remuneration or hire.

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George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100 meter sides, or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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Helicopter

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by rotors.

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Helipad

A helipad is a landing area or platform for helicopters and powered lift aircraft.

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Igor Sikorsky

Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (a, tr. Ígor' Ivánovič Sikórskij; May 25, 1889 – October 26, 1972),Fortier, Rénald.

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Jet aircraft

A jet aircraft (or simply jet) is an aircraft (nearly always a fixed-wing aircraft) propelled by jet engines (jet propulsion).

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Jim Mollison

James Allan Mollison MBE (19 April 1905 – 30 October 1959) was a Scottish pioneer aviator who, flying solo or with his wife, Amy Johnson, set many records during the rapid development of aviation in the 1930s.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.

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John F. Kennedy International Airport

John F. Kennedy International Airport (often referred to as Kennedy Airport, New York-JFK or simply JFK) is the primary international airport serving New York City.

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Kilometre

The kilometre (International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: km; or) or kilometer (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres (kilo- being the SI prefix for). It is now the measurement unit used officially for expressing distances between geographical places on land in most of the world; notable exceptions are the United States and the road network of the United Kingdom where the statute mile is the official unit used.

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List of airports in Connecticut

This is a list of airports in Connecticut (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.

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Logan International Airport

Logan International Airport, officially known as General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport and also commonly known as Boston Logan International Airport, is an international airport in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States (and partly in the town of Winthrop, Massachusetts).

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Lordship, Connecticut

Lordship is a small, waterfront neighborhood in Stratford, Connecticut.

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Military aviation

Military aviation is the use of military aircraft and other flying machines for the purposes of conducting or enabling aerial warfare, including national airlift (air cargo) capacity to provide logistical supply to forces stationed in a theater or along a front.

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National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems

The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) is an inventory of U.S. aviation infrastructure assets.

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New Bedford Regional Airport

New Bedford Regional Airport is a public airport located two miles (3 km) northwest of the central business district of New Bedford, a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.

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New York Skyports Seaplane Base

New York Skyports Inc.

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Newark, New Jersey

Newark is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County.

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Orthophoto

An orthophoto, orthophotograph or orthoimage is an aerial photograph or image geometrically corrected ("orthorectified") such that the scale is uniform: the photo has the same lack of distortion as a map.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Piedmont Airlines

Piedmont Airlines, Inc. is an American regional airline operating for American Eagle, formerly US Airways Express.

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Runway

According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft".

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL) (often shortened to sea level) is an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured.

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Sikorsky Aircraft

The Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Stratford, Connecticut.

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Stratford, Connecticut

Stratford is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.

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Tailwind Air Service

Tailwind Air Service is a limited schedule and charter airline based in New York City with maintenance in Long Island MacArthur Airport.

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The National Map

The National Map is a collaborative effort of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and other federal, state, and local agencies to improve and deliver topographic information for the United States.

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United Express

United Express is the brand name for the regional branch of United Airlines, under which nine individually owned regional airlines operate short- and medium-haul feeder flights.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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US Airways

US Airways (formerly known as USAir) was a major American airline that ceased to operate independently when the Federal Aviation Administration granted a single operating certificate (SOC) for US Airways and American Airlines on April 8, 2015.

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US Helicopter

US Helicopter was an independent air shuttle service that operated regularly scheduled helicopter flights from Manhattan to Newark and JFK airports.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Memorial_Airport

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