Jeremiah Denton Airport

For other uses of "Denton Airport", see Denton Airport (disambiguation).

Jeremiah Denton Airport
NAIP aerial image, 23 June 2006
IATA: none ICAO: none FAA LID: 4R9
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Mobile County
Serves	Dauphin Island, Alabama
Elevation AMSL	5 ft / 2 m
Coordinates	30°15′38″N 088°07′39″W
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 12/30 3,000 914 Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Aircraft operations (2015) 3,650 Based aircraft 0
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Jeremiah Denton Airport (FAA LID: 4R9), formerly Dauphin Island Airport, is a county-owned public-use airport in Mobile County, Alabama, United States.^[1] It is just northwest of the central business district of Dauphin Island,^[1] a town located on a barrier island. The airport is on Mobile Bay, west of the Aloe Bay Channel.^[2]

This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015^[3] and 2009–2013,^[4] both of which categorized it as a general aviation facility. In 2017 the airfield was closed for a time to test Navy drone operations. ^[5]

Facilities and aircraft

Dauphin Island Airport covers an area of 22 acres (9 ha) at an elevation of 5 feet (2 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 12/30 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,000 by 80 feet (914 x 24 m). For the 12-month period ending May 18, 2010, the airport had 3,650 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 10 per day.^[1]

See also

• List of airports in Alabama

References

1. FAA Airport Form 5010 for 4R9 PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 25 August 2011.
2. "About the Island: Dauphin Island Airport". Dauphin Island Property. Archived from the original on 19 November 2008. Retrieved 27 July 2009. Archived 25 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
3. "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A (PDF, 2.03 MB)" (PDF). 2011–2015 National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. 4 October 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-27.
4. "2009–2013 NPIAS Report, Appendix A: Part 1 (PDF, 1.33 MB)" (PDF). 2009–2013 National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. 15 October 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-06.
5. "Navy to use Dauphin Island for unmanned test flights". 30 March 2017.

External links

• Aerial image as of 15 February 1997 from USGS The National Map
• Birding areas at Dauphin Island Airport
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for 4R9
  • AirNav airport information for 4R9
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for 4R9