Venango Regional Airport

Venango Regional Airport , also known as Chess Lamberton Field, is a public airport in western Pennsylvania, two miles (3 km) southwest of the central business district of Franklin and about southwest of Oil City. Both cities are located in Venango County, which operates the airport. The airport covers and has two runways. It offers limited commercial service, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 3,066 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2004 and 2,939 in 2005. In the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (2007-2011) it was a categorized as a commercial service airport, which requires at least 2,500 passenger boardings per year. However, enplanements for 2006 declined to 1,978 which caused it to be categorized as a general aviation airport.

Airline and destinations

• Continental Airlines
• Continental Connection operated by Gulfstream International Airlines (Cleveland, DuBois)

Facilities and aircraft

Venango Regional Airport covers an area of 420 acres (170 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 3/21 measuring 5,200 x 150 ft (1,585 x 46 m) and 12/30 measuring 3,698 x 100 ft (1,127 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had 23,593 aircraft operations, an average of 64 per day: 93% general aviation and 7% air taxi.

References

External links

• Venango Regional Airport at Venango County web site
• Venango Regional Airport at Pennsylvania Bureau of Aviation
• Tom's Aircraft Service
• Essential Air Service documents (Docket Number 2523) from the U.S. Department of Transportation:
• Order 2007-3-12: Reselects Air Midwest to provide subsidized EAS for the two-year period ending March 31, 2009
• Order 2005-4-5: Selects Mesa Air Group (d/b/a Air Midwest) to provide essential air service through March 31, 2007
• Order 2004-12-14: Request for proposals to provide essential air service for a new two-year period