Planning

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Use and Ownership

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Airports can be public-use or private-use. Public-use airports are open to the public, whereas private-use airports are not. Airports can also be publicly-owned or privately-owned.

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Airport Improvement Program (AIP)

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Federal grant program used to fund capital-development projects through the Airport and Airway Trust Fund.

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National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS)

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FAA provides a report to Congress every two years that contains a five-year, financial estimate of Airport Improvement Program (AIP)-eligible capital development projects at airports.

• Includes all commercial service, reliever and selected GA airports throughout the U.S.

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Breakdown of US airports

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Commercial Service Airports

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• Defined as public airports receiving scheduled passenger service and having 2,500 or more enplaned passengers per year.
• The 2013-2017 NPIAS contains 499 of these airports. Of these, 378 have more than 10,000 annual passenger enplanements and are classified as primary airports.

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Primary Airports

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An airport must have more than 10,000 annual enplanements. Grouped into four categories: large hub, medium hub,small hub, and nonhub airports.

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Reliever Airports

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• Provide pilots with attractive alternatives to using congested hub airports. They also provide general aviation with access to the surrounding area.
• To be eligible, these airports must be open to the public
• have 100 ormore based aircraft
• or have 25,000 annual itinerant operations.
• The 268 of these airports have an average of 184 based aircraft, which in total represents 22 percent of the U.S.general aviation fleet.

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How many airports are included in the NPIAS?

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There are 3,355 public use airports.