Gwinnett County Airport
33°58′41″N 083°57′45″W / 33.97806°N 83.96250°W
Gwinnett County Airport Briscoe Field | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Gwinnett County | ||||||||||
| Serves | Lawrenceville, Georgia | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,061 ft / 323 m | ||||||||||
| Website | GwinnettCountyAirport.com | ||||||||||
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Gwinnett County Airport (IATA: LZU, ICAO: KLZU, FAA LID: LZU) at Briscoe Field is two miles northeast of Lawrenceville, Georgia. It is owned and operated by the Gwinnett County, in the northeastern part of metro Atlanta.[1]
It has a 6,000-foot (1,800 m) runway and is 1,061 feet (323 m) above mean sea level. Student training is conducted at the airport by several flight schools, including ATP Flight School. Two fixed-base operators (FBOs), Landmark (north ramp) and Aircraft Specialists (south ramp), serve the field with facilities, passenger lounges, and fuel. ImagineAir, an air taxi company, is based at the airport and is currently the airport's largest air carrier by passenger volume. Medway Air Ambulance and Critical Care Medflight operate medical transport services. Its Airport Minimum Standards for Operation were rewritten in 2006.
Facilities
The airport covers 472 acres (191 ha); its one runway, 7/25, is 6,000 x 100 ft (1,829 x 30 m) asphalt.[1]
In the year ending April 5, 2005 the airport had 108,485 aircraft operations, average 297 per day: 99.7% general aviation and 0.3% military. 433 aircraft are based at the airport: 75% single-engine, 13% multi-engine, 8% jet and 4% helicopter.[1]
Privatization
In May 2010 the FAA gave preliminary approval to a plan to privatize the airport. This allowed Gwinnett County to further study plans on a possible sale of the airport to private investors.[2] New York-based Propeller Investments offered to buy Briscoe Field and upgrade it with a ten-gate terminal to attract more scheduled airline services and build a runway capable of accommodating planes as large as 737s. Atlanta's dominant airline, Delta, lobbied against the proposal due to its reluctance to split operations between Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and Briscoe Field, even though three low-cost carriers, Allegiant, JetBlue, and Virgin America, do not yet offer service to Atlanta.[3]
In June 2012, the County's Board of Commissioners canceled the privatization plan, amid local opposition to airline service from the airport.[4] The Board claims that it would not have been a suitable location due widespread development around Briscoe, which would have limited future expansion. They raised the issue of distance, claiming that it was "too far away from metro Atlanta’s main population base", citing industry experts who said "most travelers would continue to utilize Hartsfield-Jackson over Briscoe because it would offer more flights, more destinations, and better ticket pricing". They called Propeller Investments a startup company without airport operations experience.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d FAA Airport Form 5010 for LZU PDF, effective October 25, 2007
- ^ Fox, Pat (December 14, 2009). "Airline Flights from Gwinnett? Firm Makes a Pitch". Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- ^ Poole, Robert (June 28, 2012). "Atlanta Needs Another Airport". Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- ^ "Gwinnett rejects commercial flights at Briscoe". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. June 5, 2012.
- ^ Regan, Jim (June 28, 2012). Atlanta Journal-Constitution http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-forward/2012/06/25/atlantas-second-airport/.
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External links
- Gwinnett County Airport, official site
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for LZU
- AirNav airport information for KLZU
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures