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the actual airport ARC is something
other than B-I, an examination of
3-7
known itinerant operations at the
airport was conducted.
TABLE 3C
Representative Air Taxi Jet Usage
February 14, 2004 - February 15, 2005
Mesquite Metro Airport
Operator Aircraft ARC
FRACTIONALS
Destination Operations
NetJets IAI Galaxy C-II DFW, TX 2
BAE 125/1000 C-II Colorado Springs, CO 2
BAE 125/1000 C-II Austin, TX 4
Cessna 560 B-II Adams Field, AR; Joslin Field, ID 4
Cessna 560 B-II Memphis, TN; Centennial, CO 20
Bombardier Lear 31 C-I Waco, TX 2
Flight Options Cessna 650 C-II Kyle-Oakley, KY 2
Embrier Legacy D-III Big Springs, TX 2
Falcon 50 B-II Spirit, MO 2
Beech 400 C-I Victoria, TX; Kyle-Oakley, KY;
Sarasota, FL; Peoria, IL
14
CHARTERS
Ameristar Jet Lear 25 C-I Branson, MO; Allen-Parish, LA 4
East Coast Jets Lear 35 C-I Westchester, NY 2
Executive Jet Cessna 560 B-II Dallas, TX 2
United Exec. Jet
Source: AirportIQ.
Lear 55 C-I San Antonio, TX 2
At non-towered airports, determining a
reasonable operational count by aircraft
type can be difficult. Fortunately, a
subscription database called AirportIQ,
collects the number of instrument
operations by aircraft type. This figure
represents the absolute minimum
possible number of operations. As
discussed previously, a multiplier of 50
percent (1.5) is applied to the total jet
operation counts in an effort to arrive at
a realistic picture of the current activity
level at Mesquite Metro Airport.
The combination of private itinerant jet
(378), charter jet (16) and fractional jet
operations (94) indicates that, at a
minimum, there were 488 itinerant jet
operations at Mesquite Metro Airport
over a one-year period, as presented in
Table 3D. Of those, 352 were by
aircraft in ARC B-II and larger, and of
those, 194 were C-I or larger. When
adjusted with the 1.5 multiplier, the
total number of itinerant jet operations
over the one-year analysis period is 732.
Of those, 291 were C-I or larger.
Because the C-I and B-II operations
exceed the 250 annual operations
threshold as established by TxDOT, the
current critical aircraft is ARC C-II.