Chester Airport is a public use

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located three miles (5 km) southwest of the

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, a town in Middlesex County,

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. It is privately owned by Whelen Aviation. It is included in the

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(FAA)

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for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a

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facility. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter

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for the FAA and

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, Chester Airport is assigned SNC by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned SNC to General Ulpiano Paez Airport in

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). The FAA identifier for Chester Airport was 3B9 and was changed to SNC in the early 2000s.

Facilities and aircraft

Chester Airport covers an area of which contains one

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paved

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(17/35) measuring 2,566 x 50 ft (782 x 15 m). For the 12-month period ending August 21, 2000, the airport had 20,800 aircraft operations, an average of 56 per day: 80%

and 20%

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. There are 115 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single engine, 9% multi-engine, 3%

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s and 2%

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