Airport Master Plan - City of Weslaco

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00MP04-1A-8/7/00 ZAPATA JIM HOGG BROOKS KENEDY 649 STARR 281 77 Mier 755 Rio Grande City Ciudad Camargo Gustavo Diaz Ordaz Missionion HIDLAGO Reynosa Edinburg 107 McAllen MEXICO Elsa Weslaco Pharr U.S. 186 Rio Bravo MID-VALLEY AIRPOR IRPORT 83 Mercedes edes Nuevo Progresso so 186 Raymondville WILLACY Matamorosos Harlingen CAMERON 100 4 48 Brownsville Padre Island Port Isabel 88 Valle Hermoso 83 MID VALLEY AIRPORT 374 83 Weslaco 374 83 88 NORTH NOT TO SCALE Exhibit 1A LOCATION MAP
Mexico, for the conveyance of goods. In anticipation of the bridge opening and encouraged by the flow of trade spurred by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the City of Weslaco is developing a Foreign Trade Sub-Zone near the bridge. The Weslaco Mid Valley Airport is centered between two larger municipalities in the middle valley corridor, McAllen and Harlingen. Both cities are served by commercial air carriers, as is Brownsville, forty miles southeast. The Mid Valley Airport consists of approximately 206 acres and is located on the northeast side of Weslaco. Highway 83 provides direct access to the airport which is only a few miles from downtown. To access the east side and main terminal area vehicular traffic turns east from Airport Drive onto Mile Eight North Road. Mile Three and a Half West Road intersects with Mile Eight and routes airport traffic north for a short distance until it splits, with airport traffic taking Stephens Boulevard, paralleling the full length of the field. Eastbound Highway 83 traffic can take the exit ramp that precedes Airport Drive and proceed onto Mile Eight Road. With industrial parks along the east side and airport facilities on the west, northbound Stephens Avenue eventually tees into Mile Nine West Road. Mile Nine West Road runs eastwest across the north side of the airport. A service road that extends from Airport Drive to Mile Nine West allows access to the northwest corner of airport property. As is shown on Exhibit 1B, Airside Facilities, Weslaco Mid Valley Airport has a single runway, Runway 13-31. The airport elevation is 70 feet above mean sea level (MSL). Weslaco Mid Valley Airport had an estimated 33,580 aircraft operations for 1999 and currently has 106 total based aircraft. Airport facilities are discussed in greater detail below. AIRPORT JURISDICTION Weslaco Mid Valley Airport is maintained under city ownership and management. The airport layout and property boundary is depicted on Exhibit 1B, Airside Facilities. Established by ordinance the Airport Advisory Board has seven members, appointed by the City Commission. The Board has the responsibility of advising the Weslaco City Commission on airport matters. The airport manager and airport staff administer, manage, and carry out daily operations. HISTORICAL AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT The Weslaco Mid Valley Airport was initially constructed in 1945 by the City of Weslaco to meet the needs of the growing Lower Rio Grande Valley regional area. The first airplane touched down on June 28, 1945. By January of 1946, the first commercial service had begun. During this first year two separate airlines vied for the transportation service: Braniff Airlines 1-3
Page 1 and 2: i l l e y Mid Valley l i r Airport
Page 3 and 4: TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page 5 and 6: Chapter One (Continued) Local Air T
Page 7 and 8: Chapter Five (Continued) Airport Pr
Page 9 and 10: Chapter One INVENTORY
Page 11: ! Population and socioeconomic info
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Page 19 and 20: ased aircraft, 26 were single engin
Page 21 and 22: facility data for the airport, espe
Page 23 and 24: Airfield Lighting Airport lighting
Page 25 and 26: 00MP04-1D-8/28/00 VEHICULAR PARKING
Page 27 and 28: UTILITIES A critical element of lan
Page 29 and 30: three letter identifier HRL. The Vi
Page 31 and 32: The VOR/DME-A circling approach uti
Page 33 and 34: airport. Aviation forecasts are nor
Page 35 and 36: City of Weslaco The City of Weslaco
Page 37 and 38: TABLE 1H Employment by Sector Hidal
Page 39 and 40: The following Web pages were also v
Page 41 and 42: Chapter Two FORECASTS The purpose o
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Page 45 and 46: FORECASTING APPROACH The developmen
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Page 49 and 50: treated as private owners in foreig
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NAFTA trade in the Valley, air carg
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TABLE 2G Peak Operations Forecasts
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00-MP-04-2C-8/30/00 CATEGORY FORECA
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Chapter Three FACILITY REQUIREMENTS
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00MP04-3A-9/19/00 Beech Baron 55 Be
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The FAA and TxDOT advise designing
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necessary to accommodate the airpor
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TABLE 3B Runway Length Requirements
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escue vehicles, and free of obstacl
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Global Positioning System The advan
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Hangars The space required for hang
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TABLE 3D Aircraft Storage Hangar Re
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space offered by fixed base operato
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square feet of parking. The majorit
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00MP04-3C-3/21/01 RUNWAYS AVAILABLE
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Chapter Four AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT AL
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While the focus of the analysis sum
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airport has not been reached. Howev
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aircraft (ARC C-II aircraft), FAA r
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As depicted on Exhibit 4B, the airp
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300 feet beyond each runway end. FA
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the approach capabilities of the ru
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on Exhibit 4D. Thus, increasing to
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To a certain extent landside uses s
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00MP04-4E-9/20/00 0 400 800 SCALE I
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airport service providers, and corp
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Chapter Five AIRPORT PLANS
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RECOMMENDED CONCEPT The recommended
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aircraft at 60 percent useful load
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adequate runway safety area (RSA) a
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length of the approach surface are
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in a manner compatible with the fun
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land were acquired (i.e. Federal fu
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Chapter Six FINANCIAL PLAN The anal
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Runway 13-31: the widening of the r
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Several landside development projec
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authorized at $2.475 billion in 200
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The airport operates with the aid o
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decides to construct additional T-H
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not eligible for federal or state a
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Appendix A ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION
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PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT As a result of
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Computer input files for the noise
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LEGEND ExistingAirport Property Lin
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to the project. Social impacts are
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water features potentially affected
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WATERS OF THE U.S., INCLUDING WETLA
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Appendix B GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIO
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Displaced threshold: a threshold th
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Outer marker (OM): an ILS navigatio
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ABBREVIATIONS AGL: ALS: ARTCC: ATCT
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Appendix C GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATI
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