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Slidell Airport is a city-owned public-use Great Circle Mapper: ASD / MYAF - Andros Town, Bahamas
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Slidell Airport covers an area of at an
airport
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located four nautical miles (7 km) northwest of the central business district
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of Slidell, a city in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
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, United States
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Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier
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for the FAA and IATA
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, this airport is assigned ASD by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned ASD to Andros Town Airport on Andros Island
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in the Bahamas
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Facilities and aircraft
Slidell Airport covers an area of at an elevation
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of 29 feet (9 m) above mean sea level
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. It has one runway
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designated 18/36 with a 5,001 by 100 ft (1,524 x 30 m) asphalt
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surface.
The Louisiana Office of the National Weather Service is located here.
For the 12-month period ending April 15, 2008, the airport had 112,000 aircraft operations, an average of 306 per day: 96% general aviation
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, 4% military
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. At that time there were 86 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single-engine
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, 9% multi-engine, 2% helicopter
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and 1% jet.
See also
*List of airports in Louisiana
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References
External links
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