FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION
VERSION 2007

TITLE: AIRPORTS

Geodataset Name:       AIRPORTS_2007
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Point
Feature Count:         859
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
The Airports database is a geographic point database of aircraft landing facilities in Florida. Attribute data is provided on the physical and operational characteristics of the landing facility, current usage including enplanements and aircraft operations, congestion levels and usage categories. There are 859 airport landing facilities in this dataset. This geospatial data is derived from the FAA's National Airspace System Resource Aeronautical Data Product (Effective 18 January 2007).
DATA SOURCE(S):                    U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Unknown
DATE OF AUTOMATION OF SOURCE:      2007
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: AIRPORTS_2007.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE N. DECIMAL DEGREES
OBJECTID
4 OID ---
SITE_NO
11 String ---
LAN_FA_TY
13 String ---
LOCID
4 String ---
EFF_DATE
10 String ---
FAA_REGION
3 String ---
FAA_DISTRI
4 String ---
FAA_ST
2 String ---
STATE_NAME
20 String ---
COUNTY_NAM
21 String ---
COUNTY_ST
2 String ---
CITY_NAME
40 String ---
FULLNAME
42 String ---
OWNER_TYPE
2 String ---
FAC_USE
2 String ---
FAC_CYSTZP
45 String ---
ELEV
5 String ---
AERO_CHART
30 String ---
CBD_DIST
2 String ---
CBD_DIR
3 String ---
ACT_DATE
7 String ---
CERT_TYPE
15 String ---
FED_AGREE
7 String ---
INTERNATIO
1 String ---
CUST_LNDG
1 String ---
JOINT_USE
1 String ---
MIL_LNDG_R
1 String ---
MIL_INT
6 String ---
CNTL_TWR
1 String ---
S_ENG_GA
3 String ---
M_ENG_GA
3 String ---
JET_EN_GA
3 String ---
HELICOPTER
3 String ---
OPER_GLIDE
3 String ---
OPER_MIL
3 String ---
ULTRALIGHT
3 String ---
COMM_SERV
6 String ---
AIR_TAXI
6 String ---
LOCAL_OPS_
6 String ---
ITIN_OPS_G
6 String ---
MIL_OPS
6 String ---
LATITUDE
19 Number 10
LONGITUDE
19 Number 10
STFIPS
2 String ---
ST_POSTAL
2 String ---
CY_05_ENP
10 Number ---
VERSION
2 String ---
DESCRIPT
45 String ---
FGDLAQDATE
8 Date ---
AUTOID
4 Integer ---
SHAPE
4 Geometry ---

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

SITE_NO A unique identifying number followed by an asterisk and the 'landing facility type' code. The SITE_NO forms the key to the airport records in the NFDC (5010) database. Example: 04508.*A

LAN_FA_TY Landing Facility Type
AIRPORT = Airport Facility

BALLOONPORT = Balloon Launch and Landing Facility

SEAPLANE BASE = Facility for sea plane operations

GLIDERPORT = Facility for glider operations

HELIPORT = Facility for helicopter operations

STOLPORT = Short Take Off and Landing Facility

ULTRALIGHT = Facility for ultralight operations


LOCID A unique 3-4 character identifier assigned to the landing facility (i.e. airport).

EFF_DATE Information Effective Data (MM/DD/YYYY). This date coincides with the 56-day charting and publication cycle date.

FAA_REGION FAA Region where the facility is located
AAL = Alaska

ACE = Central

AEA = Eastern

AGL = Great Lakes

AIN = International

ANE = New England

ANM = Northwest Mountain

ASO = Southern

ASW = Southwest

AWP = Western-Pacific


FAA_DISTRI FAA District or Field Office Code

FAA_ST State Postal abbreviation, as coded by FAA

STATE_NAME Airport's associated state or territory name, as coded by FAA.

COUNTY_NAM Name of the county or parish associated with the airport, as coded by FAA.

COUNTY_ST Associated county's state (post office code) state where the associated county is located; may not be the same as the associated city's state code, as coded by FAA.

CITY_NAME Name of the city associated with the airport, as coded by FAA.

FULLNAME Official Airport Name

OWNER_TYPE Type of Airport Facility Owner
PU = Publicly Owned

PR = Privately Owned

MA = Air Force Owned

MN = Navy Owned

MR = Army Owned


FAC_USE Facility Use -- Public or Private
PU = Public Use Airport Facility

PR = Private Use Airport Facility


FAC_CYSTZP City, State, and Zip code associated with the airport.

ELEV Elevation in feet at the highest point on the centerline of the useable landing surface. Measured to the nearest foot with respect to mean sea level (MSL).

AERO_CHART Aeronautical chart on which the airport facility appears.

CBD_DIST Distance from the central business district of the associated city to the airport in nautical miles (1 nautical mile = 6,080 feet). Measured to the nearest nautical mile

CBD_DIR Direction of airport from the central business district of the associated city. Measured to the nearest 1/8 compass point
N = North

ENE = East Northeast

ESE = East Southeast

N = North

NE = Northeast

NNE = North Northeast

NNW = North Northwest

NW = Northwest

S = South

SE = Southeast

SSE = South Southeast

SSW = South Southwest

SW = Southwest

W = West

WNW = West Northwest

WSW = West Southwest


ACT_DATE Identifies the month and year that the facility was added to the NFDC airport database - only available for facilities opened since 1981 (MM/YYYY).

CERT_TYPE Airport Certification Type and Date - The format is a two-character code followed by a month/year (MM/YYYY) of certification.
AS = Landing facilities having a full certificate under FAR Part 139 and receiving scheduled air carrier service from carriers certified by the Civil Aeronautics Board. The A, B, C, D, E identifies the aircraft rescue and fire fighting index for the landing facility, and the 'S' is for scheduled air carrier service.

BS = Landing facilities having a full certificate under FAR Part 139 and receiving scheduled air carrier service from carriers certified by the Civil Aeronautics Board. The A, B, C, D, E identifies the aircraft rescue and fire fighting index for the landing facility, and the 'S' is for scheduled air carrier service.

CS = Landing facilities having a full certificate under FAR Part 139 and receiving scheduled air carrier service from carriers certified by the Civil Aeronautics Board. The A, B, C, D, E identifies the aircraft rescue and fire fighting index for the landing facility, and the 'S' is for scheduled air carrier service.

DS = Landing facilities having a full certificate under FAR Part 139 and receiving scheduled air carrier service from carriers certified by the Civil Aeronautics Board. The A, B, C, D, E identifies the aircraft rescue and fire fighting index for the landing facility, and the 'S' is for scheduled air carrier service.

ES = Landing facilities having a full certificate under FAR Part 139 and receiving scheduled air carrier service from carriers certified by the Civil Aeronautics Board. The A, B, C, D, E identifies the aircraft rescue and fire fighting index for the landing facility, and the 'S' is for scheduled air carrier service.

AU = Landing facilities having a full certificate under FAR Part 139 but not currently receiving scheduled service.

BU = Landing facilities having a full certificate under FAR Part 139 but not currently receiving scheduled service.

CU = Landing facilities having a full certificate under FAR Part 139 but not currently receiving scheduled service.

DU = Landing facilities having a full certificate under FAR Part 139 but not currently receiving scheduled service.

EU = Landing facilities having a full certificate under FAR Part 139 but not currently receiving scheduled service.

LS = Landing facilities having limited certification under FAR Part 139 and receiving scheduled air carrier service.

LU = Landing facilities having limited certification under FAR Part 139 and not currently receiving scheduled air carrier service.

N = 'N' or a blank indicates the facility is not certified.


FED_AGREE NASP/ Federal Agreement Code - a combination of 1 to 7 codes that indicate the type of federal agreements existing at the airport.
N = National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS)

B = Installation of Navigational Facilities on privately owned airports under F&E program

G = Grant agreements under FAAP/ADAP/AIP

H = Compliance with accessibility to the handicapped

P = Surplus property agreement under Public Law 289

R = Surplus Property agreement under Regulation 16-WAA

S = Conveyance under Section 16, Federal Airport Act of 1946 or Section 23, Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970

V = Advance Planning Agreement under FAAP

X = Obligations assumed by transfer

Y = Assurances pursuant to Title VI, Civil Rights Act of 1964

Z = Conveyance under Section 303(C), Federal Aviation Act of 1958

1 = Grant agreement has expired; however, agreement remains in effect as long as it is a public use facility

2 = Section 303(C) Authority from FAA Act of 1958 has expired; however, agreement remains in effect as long as it is a public use facility

3 = AP-4 Agreement under DLAND or DCLA has expired

NONE = No Grant Agreement Exists


INTERNATIO Customs international airport - Whether the landing facility has been designated by the U.S. Treasury as an international airport of entry for customs.
Y = Yes

N = No


CUST_LNDG Customs Landing Rights Airport - Whether the landing facility has been designated by the U.S. Treasury as a customs landing rights airport (some landing facilities may have these rights for cargo only).
Y = Yes

N = No


JOINT_USE Joint Use - Whether the landing facility has a military/civil joint use agreement that allows civil operations at a military airport or military operations at a civil airport.
Y = Yes

N = No


MIL_LNDG_R Military Landing Rights - Whether the airport has entered into an agreement that grants landing rights to the military.
Y = Yes

N = No


MIL_INT Military Emergency Interest - Military department(s) that maintains national emergency use interest in this civil facility. Data values in this field are one, two, or three alphanumeric codes indicating military emergency use interest, with each code in a series separated by a '/'.
A = Air Force

R = Army

N = Navy

X = None [applicable only where there is an entry in the National Emergency * Status [NAT_EMER] Field]


CNTL_TWR Airport Control Tower located on the airport.
Y = Yes

N = No


S_ENG_GA Based Single Engine General Aviation Aircraft

M_ENG_GA Based Multi-engine general aviation aircraft

JET_EN_GA Based Jet engine general aviation aircraft

HELICOPTER Based Helicopters - General Aviation

OPER_GLIDE Base Operational Gliders - general aviation

OPER_MIL Based Military Aircraft - including helicopters

ULTRALIGHT Based Ultralight aircraft - general aviation

COMM_SERV Commercial Services - scheduled operations by CAB certified carriers or intrastate carriers and any scheduled commuter/cargo carriers (Annual Operations).

AIR_TAXI Air Taxi operators carrying passengers, mail, or mail for revenue (Annual Operations).

LOCAL_OPS_ General Aviation, Local Operations - Those operating in the local traffic pattern or within a 20 mile radius (Annual Operations).

ITIN_OPS_G General Aviation - Itinerant Operations. Those general aviation operations (excluding commuter or air taxi) not qualifying as local (Annual Operations).

MIL_OPS Military Aircraft Operations (Annual Operations).

LATITUDE The latitude of the point expressed as a signed real number. This value is in decimal degrees with negative values indicating South latitude and positive values indicating North latitude.

LONGITUDE The longitude of the point expressed as a signed real number. This value is in decimal degrees with negative values indicating West longitude and positive values indicating East longitude.

STFIPS The 2-character FIPS code of the State or State equivalent, as coded by RITA/BTS

ST_POSTAL State Postal abbreviation, as coded by RITA/BTS

CY_05_ENP Total domestic enplanements (inbound plus outbound) for calendar year 2005 - this field only valid for some airports.

VERSION The VERSION is a 2-digit number that will be incremented for all records in the database whenever a new release is distributed.

DESCRIPT GeoPlan added field based on FULLNAME

FGDLAQDATE FGDL added field based on date recieved from source

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan

SHAPE Feature geometry.


USER NOTES:
All point records in this dataset are represented by a single coordinate pair and 
two unique feature identifiers -- the landing facility location identifier (LOCID) and 
the site number (SITE_NO) assigned by the FAA.

BTS quality checks were to cross reference the place dataset with the state 
dataset, to determine that the spatial data and attribute data were accurate.
unknown
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.

The dataset provides users with information about airport locations and attributes
in the state of Florida, and can be used for national and regional analysis
applications.

Horizontal positional accuracy is based on coordinate data provided in the FAA 
National Airspace System Resource Aeronautical Dataset (Effective 18 January 
2007).  These coordinate data identify the approximate location of the Airport 
Reference Point (ARP) as reported by the landing facility on the NFDC (National 
Flight Data Center) 5010 form.  According to NFDC guidelines, the location of 
the ARP should be reported to a horizontal accuracy of one arc second of 
latitude and longitude.  However, the accuracy of these reported coordinates 
are not verified by FAA.  The records were loaded into a GIS and checked for 
any unusual or obviously erroneous locations.

This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy
has not been verified by GeoPlan

THE DATA INCLUDED IN FGDL ARE 'AS IS' AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED
AS LEGALLY BINDING. THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA GEOPLAN CENTER SHALL
NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF USING,
MODIFYING, CONTRIBUTING OR DISTRIBUTING THE MATERIALS.

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before using it for projects or analysis. Every effort has been
made to supply the user with data documentation. For additional
information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact
section of this documentation. For more information regarding
scale and accuracy, see our webpage at:
http://geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html

REFERENCES:


DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
The creation of this geospatial data layer was completed by RITA/BTS in February 2007. 
This Shapefile was built from textual data on the FAA National Airspace 
System Resource Aeronautical Data CDROM, effective 18 January 2007.
Process Date: 2007

In July 2007 Geoplan obtained the data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics in CDROM format -GeoPlan extracted this data in shapefile format and removed facilities not located in Florida. -The shapefile was reprojected from WGS_1984 Decimal Degrees to the FGDL Albers HPGN map projection. (See "Map Projection Parameters" below). - All records were upcased. - Changed original layer name from Airport to airports_2007. - A DESCRIPT field was added based on FULL_NAME - A FGDLAQDATE field was added based on date of data processing Process Date: 20070712
Data imported to ArcSDE and exported as a shapefile. Process Date: 20071218
MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS:

Projection                          ALBERS
Datum                               HPGN
Units                               METERS
Spheroid                            GRS1980
1st Standard Parallel               24  0  0.000
2nd Standard Parallel               31 30  0.000
Central Meridian                   -84 00  0.000
Latitude of Projection's Origin     24  0  0.000
False Easting (meters)              400000.00000
False Northing (meters)             0.00000

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