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Southland Field

Southland Field

Airport

Southland Field (ICAO: KUXL, FAA LID: UXL, formerly L75) is a public-use airport located five nautical miles (9 km) south of the central business district of Sulphur, a city in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is owned by the West Calcasieu Airport Managing Board[1] and is also known as West Calcasieu Airport.

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This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[2] Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility is assigned UXL by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.[3]

Facilities and aircraft

Southland Field covers an area of 278 acres (113 ha) at an elevation of 10 feet (3 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 15/33 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,001 by 75 feet (1,524 x 23 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending October 10, 2023, the airport had 21,550 aircraft operations, an average of 59 per day: 99% general aviation and 1% military. At that time there were 15 aircraft based at this airport: 14 single-engine, and 1 multi-engine.[1]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    FAA Airport Form 5010 for UXL PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 28 December 2023.
  2. [2]
    National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013: Appendix A: Part 3 (PDF, 1.28 MB) Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine. Federal Aviation Administration. Updated 15 October 2008.
  3. [3]
    "Southland Field (FAA: UXL, ICAO: KUXL)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
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