Thomas P. Stafford Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCity of Weatherford
ServesWeatherford, Oklahoma
Elevation AMSL1,605 ft / 489 m
Coordinates35°32′45″N 098°40′07″W / 35.54583°N 98.66861°W / 35.54583; -98.66861
Websitehttps://cityofweatherford.com/transportation
Map
OJA is located in Oklahoma
OJA
OJA
Location of airport in Oklahoma
OJA is located in the United States
OJA
OJA
OJA (the United States)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
17/35 5,100 1,554 Concrete
Statistics (2018)
Aircraft operations (year ending 6/13/2018)8,000
Based aircraft30

Thomas P. Stafford Airport (ICAO: KOJA, FAA LID: OJA, formerly F91) is a city-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Weatherford, a city in Custer County, Oklahoma.[1] Named after NASA astronaut and Weatherford native Thomas P. Stafford, it is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, 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 airport is assigned OJA by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.[3][4]

The Stafford Air & Space Museum, which is also named for Thomas P. Stafford, is located at the airport, and exhibits the Gemini 6A space capsule flown by Stafford and Wally Schirra in 1965 and the spacesuit Stafford wore during his 1969 Apollo 10 Moon mission.

Facilities and aircraft

Thomas P. Stafford Airport covers an area of 167 acres (68 ha) at an elevation of 1,605 feet (489 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 17/35 with a concrete surface measuring 5,100 by 75 feet (1,554 x 23 m).[1] The runway previously had an asphalt surface measuring 4,400 by 75 feet (1,341 x 23 m).[5]

For the 12-month period ending June 13, 2018, the airport had 8,000 aircraft operations, 98% general aviation, and 2% military, an average of 22 per day. At that time there were 30 aircraft based at this airport: 19 single-engine, 6 multi-engine, 4 jet, and 1 helicopter.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Form 5010 for OJA PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective October 5, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Appendix A: List of NPIAS Airports with 5-Year Forecast Activity and Development Cost". National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) Reports. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010. Archived from the original on 2012-10-27.
  3. ↑ "Thomas P. Stafford Airport, Weatherford, Oklahoma (ICAO: KOJA, FAA: OJA)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Airline and Airport Code Search". International Air Transport Association (IATA). Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  5. ↑ "KOJA – Thomas P. Stafford Airport". FAA data republished by AirNav. February 11, 2010. Archived from the original on March 27, 2010.
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