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Which U.S. Airport Has The Longest Runway?

Bobcat From United States of America, joined Jun 2007, 0 posts, RR: 0
Posted (10 years 10 months 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 6874 times:

Which U.S. airport has the longest runway?
(or other major airports around the world)

I was out spotting at JFK with some friends a couple of days ago.
I never realized JFK's runway 13/31 is 14752....
That's awfully long... isn't it?

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Rai From Canada, joined Feb 2008, 0 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (10 years 10 months 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 6830 times:

Bobcat: You from New York? I believe it is JFK's RWY 13L/31R. I heard that it is the only civil airport in the U.S. that is used as an alternate when landing a space shuttle because of that runway. It's so long that they sometimes only use 12,000 feet of it for Southeastern departures while using the 4/22's for other traffic.

However, I think DIA is paving a 16,000ft runway pretty soon.

Shaun3000 From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 445 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (10 years 10 months 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 6821 times:

DFW's 17R is 13401' long and it, too, is an emergency alternate for the space shuttle. I think pretty much any US airport with a long enough runway is an alternate for the space shuttle.

WSRegal From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (10 years 10 months 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 6813 times:

Orlando Int'l Airport (MCO) also has an alternate landing runway for the shuttle.

-WSRegal

Brons2 From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 2969 posts, RR: 5
Reply 4, posted (10 years 10 months 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 6814 times:

Here's a real shuttle alternative...Amarillo, TX.

13502 x 300 ft. / 4115 x 91 m

Not the longest ever, but twice as wide!!

Firings, if well done, are good for employee morale.

Flyf15 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 5, posted (10 years 10 months 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 6807 times:

Yes, JFK is the longest, followed closely by Las Vegas. It will soon be Denver though as they are paving a 16,000ft long runway.

There are also more than a few military runways that are 15,000ft long, some of them 300ft wide.

Sllevin From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 3376 posts, RR: 7
Reply 6, posted (10 years 10 months 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 6802 times:

Actually, some of the military runways are 400' wide. Some are painted 200' in the middle but 100' on each side...not bad overrun Smile

Edwards AFB, with Rogers dry lake, certainly has the longest usable runway at something like 35,000' long and while people try and track the 'lines' it's easily 4 or 5000' wide.

Steve

Serge From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 1989 posts, RR: 3
Reply 7, posted (10 years 10 months 3 days ago) and read 6745 times:

Its not the longest, but should be mentioned since an emergency landing would be real easy because of lack of traffic.

Glasgow Industrial Airport (07MT) has a 13500 x 300 ft. runway with 1,000 feet overruns on both ends. Its basically not being used right now and is in the middle of nowhere in Montana. It used to be used for Boeing flight testing, I remember when I lived nearby, 777s used to fly over on approach. Smile/happy/getting dizzy

http://airnav.com/airport/07MT
http://www.boeing.com/assocproducts/techsvcs/boeingtech/bts_flita.html

regards,
Serge

Fritzi From United Arab Emirates, joined Jun 2001, 2762 posts, RR: 2
Reply 8, posted (10 years 10 months 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 6706 times:

The NASA shuttle landing facility in Florida has a 15,000*300 ft long rwy with a 1000 ft overrun on each side.

Has anyone here ever been to Area 51 "Groom Lake"? They are supposed to have a very long paved rwy. But I doubt that civilian aircraft are allowed to land there. Big grin

Jayhup From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 440 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (10 years 10 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 6668 times:

Stewart Airport (used to be Stewart Air Force Base) in upstate New York also has a very long runway......

JH

DIA From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 3273 posts, RR: 30
Reply 10, posted (10 years 10 months 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 6582 times:

DIA's runway fast facts:

Denver International Airport has five runways - three north/south and two east/west runways, and has room for a total of 12 runways.
Each runway is 12,000 feet (3,640 meters) long and 150 feet (46 meters) wide.
A sixth runway is under construction and is scheduled to be completed in 2003. It will be 16,000 feet (4,853 meters) long.

DIA

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Flyingbronco05 From United States of America, joined May 2002, 3838 posts, RR: 3
Reply 11, posted (10 years 10 months 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 6534 times:

I was going to say ORD's 32L but I think I will keep my mouth shut.

http://www.airnav.com/airports/KORD

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GD727 From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 925 posts, RR: 11
Reply 12, posted (10 years 10 months 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 6519 times:

Las Vegas-McCarren's runway 7L/25R is 14,510 feet long by 150 feet wide. Not the longest, but pretty long!

-GD727

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GARUDAROD From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 1476 posts, RR: 1
Reply 13, posted (10 years 10 months 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 6490 times:

What about the reef runway at HNL?, I thought that was close to 15,000ft
long as well. That is also an alternative landing strip for the Shuttle if
needed. White Sands Air Base in New Mexico has also been used for
Shuttle flights. Maybe some of you data hounds can find the lengths
for those...

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