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Norwood Memorial Airport is a public airport east of Norwood, in Norfolk County,
On 4 June 2007 a Mooney M-20-P crashed into the woods south of the airport while on final approach. One person was killed.
In March 2010 the airport was temporarily closed due to severe flooding.
Norwood Memorial Airport
(official site)
Flight Level Norwood
* Norwood, Massachusetts Airports in Norfolk County, Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-airport-stub Closed installations of the United States Navy
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, United States. It is home to the offices of prominent local business people and several maintenance facilities.
As Outlying Landing Field Norwood, the airfield was a Naval Outlying Landing Field
An outlying landing field (OLF) is an auxiliary airfield, associated with a seaborne component of the United States military. When associated with the United States Navy (who operate the majority), they are known as naval outlying landing fields ...
located in Norwood, Massachusetts operational from 1942 to 1945. It existed as an outlying field of Naval Air Station Squantum
Naval Air Station Squantum was an active naval aviation facility during 1917 and from 1923 until 1953. The original civilian airfield that preceded it, the Harvard Aviation Field, dates back to 1910. The base was sited on Squantum Point in th ...
and was used by student pilots to gain flight experience on its two runways. The 1946 chart shows it as a civil airfield. It took the place of the former Boston Metropolitan Airport in Canton, Massachusetts.
Facilities
Norwood Memorial Airport covers and has two runways: * 17/35: , asphalt * 10/28: , asphalt In the year ending January 31, 2020 the airport had 58,628 aircraft operations, an average of 161 per day: 91%general aviation
General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations with the exception of commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services ...
, 9% air taxi
An air taxi is a small commercial aircraft that makes short flights on demand.
In 2001 air taxi operations were promoted in the United States by a NASA and aerospace industry study on the potential Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) ...
and less than 1% military.
In April 2022, there were 101 aircraft based at this airport: 72 single-engine, 9 multi-engine, 7 jet and 13 helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes ...
.
The airport has two flight schools and Flight Level Aviation as an FBO. Charter services operate commonly out of the airport.
Due to federal budget cuts the air traffic control tower was to close in 2013, but FAA funding was restored before closure took place.
Airlines and destinations
Incidents
On 4 June 2007 a Mooney M-20-P crashed into the woods south of the airport while on final approach. One person was killed.
In March 2010 the airport was temporarily closed due to severe flooding.
References
External links
Norwood Memorial Airport
(official site)
Flight Level Norwood
* Norwood, Massachusetts Airports in Norfolk County, Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-airport-stub Closed installations of the United States Navy