K0J6 - Headland Municipal Airport
Headland, United States

K0J6 - Headland Municipal Airport

Headland, United States

Headland Municipal Airport (FAA LID: 0J6) is Federally-owned city-maintained, public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Headland, a city in Henry County, Alabama, United States.This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 and 2009–2013, both of which categorized it as a general aviation facility. == Facilities and aircraft == Headland Municipal Airport covers an area of 328 acres (133 ha) at an elevation of 359 feet (109 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 9/27 is 5,002 by 80 feet (1,525 x 24 m) with an asphalt pavement and 17/35 is 2,865 by 162 feet (873 x 49 m) with a turf surface.For the 12-month period ending November 5, 2010, the airport had 41,203 aircraft operations, an average of 112 per day: 90% general aviation and 10% military.

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Random Airports

This app shows satellite views of random airports. Its aim is to introduce you to the variety of airport structures embedded into the landscape.

Usage

Technologies and Data Sources

This app is based on the Google Maps API, which on the one hand provides a powerful programming interface for web-based mapping applications, and on the other hand opens access to high quality satellite imagery for places all over the world.

The backend is realized in Python with the help of the excellent Flask micro framework.

The locations of airports have been imported from the public domain data provided by the aviation enthusiasts at OurAirports.com. The app displays randomly selected airports of the categories 'large_airport','medium_airport' and 'small_airport' for which runway coordinates are available.

Furthermore, the user interface incorporates icons from Font Awesome and fonts from Google Fonts.

Author

This is brought to you by me, Florian Pigorsch. Feel free to contact me via mail. The source code of this app can be found at Github.

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Some Examples

Here's a list of 10 random airports:

Random Airports

This app shows satellite views of random airports. Its aim is to introduce you to the variety of airport structures embedded into the landscape.