First Flight Airport

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Coordinates: 36°01′06″N 75°40′17″W / 36.01833, -75.67139

First Flight Airport
IATA: FFA – ICAO: KFFA – FAA: FFA
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		National Park Service
Serves		Kill Devil Hills
Location		Dare County, North Carolina
Elevation AMSL		13 ft / 4 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
2/20	3,000	914	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			38,120
Based aircraft			0
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

First Flight Airport (IATA: FFA, ICAO: KFFA, FAA LID: FFA) is a general aviation airport located in Kill Devil Hills, a town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States. The airport itself is famous for being the site of hundreds of pre-flight gliding experiments carried out by the Wright brothers. The Wright Brothers National Memorial, located atop nearby Kill Devil Hills, is a 60-foot granite pylon paying homage to the Wright Brothers and the first sustained heavier-than-air flight.^[2] The U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission also chose the airport as one of the stops for the National Air Tour 2003.^[3]

1 History
2 See also
3 References
- 3.1 Notes
4 External links

[edit] History

In 1903 the first successful flight occurred here conducted by the Wright brothers.

[edit] See also

Wright brothers

[edit] References

FAA Airport Master Record for FFA (Form 5010 PDF)

[edit] Notes

^ FAA Airport Master Record for FFA (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-12-20
^ Wright Brothers National Memorial. U.S. National Park Service (2006). Retrieved on 2006-12-19.
^ The National Park Service and the National Air Tour 2003 Announce Plans for Stop at Wright Brothers National Memorial. U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission (2003). Retrieved on 2006-12-19.

[edit] External links

NCDOT Airport Information: First Flight Airport PDF (273 KiB)
U.S. National Park Service: Wright Brothers National Memorial
Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for KFFA
- ASN accident history for FFA
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for KFFA

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