Bridgeport Municipal Airport is a public airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 located four miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Bridgeport

Bridgeport, Texas

Bridgeport is a city in Wise County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,309 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, Bridgeport has a total area of 3.7 square miles , of which, 3.7 square miles of it is land and 0.04 square miles of it is...

, a city in Wise County

Wise County, Texas

As of the census of 2000, there were 48,793 people, 17,178 households, and 13,467 families residing in the county. The population density was 54 people per square mile . There were 19,242 housing units at an average density of 21 per square mile...

, Texas

Texas

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, United States

United States

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. It is owned by the City of Bridgeport.

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

Location identifier

A location identifier is a symbolic representation for the name and the location of an airport, navigation aid, or weather station, and is used for manned air traffic control facilities in air traffic control, telecommunications, computer programming, weather reports, and related services.-ICAO...

 for the FAA

Federal Aviation Administration

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 and IATA

International Air Transport Association

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, Bridgeport Municipal Airport is assigned XBP (formerly 1F9) by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.

Facilities and aircraft

Bridgeport Municipal Airport covers an area of 117 acres (47.3 ha) which contains one asphalt

Asphalt

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 paved runway

Runway

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 (17/35) measuring 4,004 x 60 ft (1,220 x 18 m).

For the 12-month period ending June 23, 2005, the airport had 12,300 aircraft operations, 100% of which were general aviation

General aviation

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. There are 49 aircraft based at this airport: 70% single engine, 14% multi-engine, 12% ultralight and 4% helicopter

Helicopter

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