Max Westheimer terminal building in 2018

University of Oklahoma Westheimer Airport (Max Westheimer Airport) is a public use

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in Norman, in

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. It is owned by the

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. The

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for 2021–2025 categorized it as a reliever airport.

History

The airport was built as a civil airport on land donated by the Neustadt family in the name of World War I pilot Max Westheimer to the

and land from the city of

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. It was taken over by the

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in 1941 and expanded as a training field; it was then called the Naval Air Station Norman. It was transferred back to the University after the war.

Facilities

The airport covers 727

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s (294 ha) at an

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of 1,182 feet (360 m) above sea level. It has two

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s: 18/36 is 5,199 by 100 feet (1,585 x 30 m) and 3/21 is 4,748 by 100 feet (1,447 x 30 m). In the year ending January 1, 2018, the airport had 48,733 aircraft operations, an average of 134 per day: 97%

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, 2% military and 1%

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. In May 2022, there were 107 aircraft based at this airport: 80 single-engine, 16 multi-engine, 5 jet and 6 helicopter. The Cleveland County Composite Squadron of

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meets on Tuesday evenings in a hangar provided by The University of Oklahoma, east of the terminal.

References

External links

University of Oklahoma - Max Westheimer Airport

University of Oklahoma Westheimer Airport (OUN)
at Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission
Cleveland County Composite Squadron - Civil Air Patrol

University of Oklahoma LAAS & WAAS Testing

Aerial image as of February 1995
from

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History

Facilities

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References

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