Phoenix Goodyear Airport

Phoenix Goodyear Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	KGYR
IATA code	GYR
Coordinates	33 ° 25 '26 " N , 112 ° 22' 29" W Coordinates: 33 ° 25 '26 " N , 112 ° 22' 29" W
Height above MSL	296 m (971 ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	2 km southwest of Goodyear
Street	I-10
Basic data
opening	1940s
operator	City of Phoenix
surface	320 ha
Flight ; movements	123,334 (2016)
Start-and runway
3/21	2591 m × 46 m asphalt

The Phoenix Goodyear Airport ( ICAO code : KGYR , IATA code : GYR , FAA code: GYR ) is an airport in the city of Goodyear in Maricopa County in the US state of Arizona .

history

The airport was first opened as Naval Air Facility (NAF) Litchfield Park in the 1940s and later referred to as Naval Air Station Litchfield Park after an expansion . After the end of World War II, the military airfield was mainly used for redundant or obsolete aircraft from the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. In 1968 this task was handed over to today's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (also AMARG; formerly AMARC and MASDC) in Tucson and Goodyear continued to be operated as a civil airfield by the city of Phoenix .

Several flight schools are now stationed at the airport, including since 1970 the Airline Training Center Arizona of Lufthansa that there along with the air force most of the flight instruction performs its pilots.

Since the 1990s, Goodyear has been increasingly used as a parking space for commercial aircraft that have been parked for a long time , now also as an aircraft graveyard for scrapping.

Web links

Commons : Phoenix Goodyear Airport - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Goodyear Airport (airport website)
Data from the American FAA on the airport

Individual evidence

↑ Facts & Statistics. GoodyearAirport.com, accessed June 19, 2017 .
↑ ATCA - Airline Training Center Arizona ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed June 2, 2015 @1@ 2

[statistics-1] Facts & Statistics. GoodyearAirport.com, accessed June 19, 2017 .

[2] ATCA - Airline Training Center Arizona ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed June 2, 2015 @1@ 2