Fulton County Airport (Georgia)

{{Short description|County Airport in Georgia, United States}}

{{For|other airports with this name|Fulton County Airport (disambiguation)}}

{{Use American English|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox airport

| name = Fulton County Airport

| nativename = Charlie Brown Field

| image = Charlie Brown Fulton County Airport GA 20100113 0226.JPG

| caption = Aerial view, January 2010

| IATA = FTY

| ICAO = KFTY

| FAA = FTY

| type = Public

| owner = Fulton County

| operator =

| city-served = Atlanta, Georgia

| location =

| elevation-f = 841

| coordinates = {{coord|33|46|45|N|084|31|17|W|region:US-GA_type:airport|display=title,inline}}

| website = {{URL|https://www.fultoncountyga.gov/airport|fultoncountyga.gov/airport}}

| pushpin_map = USA Georgia#USA

| pushpin_relief = yes

| pushpin_map_caption = Location of airport in Georgia

| pushpin_label = FTY

| pushpin_label_position = right

| r1-number = 8/26

| r1-length-f = 5,797

| r1-surface = Asphalt

| r2-number = 14/32

| r2-length-f = 4,158

| r2-surface = Asphalt

| stat1-header = Aircraft operations (2021)

| stat1-data = 79,449

| stat2-header = Based aircraft

| stat2-data = 86

| footnotes = Source: Federal Aviation Administration{{FAA-airport|ID=FTY|use=PU|own=PU|site=03639.*A}}. Federal Aviation Administration. effective September 7, 2023.

}}

Fulton County Airport {{airport codes|FTY|KFTY|FTY}}, also known as Charlie Brown Field or Brown’s Field, is a county-owned, public-use airport in Fulton County, Georgia, United States. It is located six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) west of the central business district of Atlanta. The airport's name comes from the nickname of former Atlanta politician Charles M. Brown, who served on the city council and county commission during the 1960s. It is also called Charlie Brown Airport or Brown Field. On the radio, however, it is referred to as "County Tower" or "County Ground".

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 293 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,

{{cite web

| url = http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy08_all_enplanements.pdf

| title = Enplanements for CY 2008 | format = PDF, 1.0 MB

| work = CY 2008 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data

| publisher = Federal Aviation Administration | date = December 18, 2009

}}

198 enplanements in 2009, and 725 in 2010.

{{cite web

| url = http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy10_all_enplanements.pdf

| title = Enplanements for CY 2010 | format = PDF, 189 KB

| work = CY 2010 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data

| publisher = Federal Aviation Administration | date = October 4, 2011

}}

It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a reliever airport.

{{cite web

|url=http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/reports/media/2011/npias_2011_appA.pdf

|title=2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A

|format=PDF, 2.03 MB

|work=National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems

|publisher=Federal Aviation Administration

|date=October 4, 2010

|url-status=dead

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927084535/http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/reports/media/2011/npias_2011_appA.pdf

|archivedate=2012-09-27

}}

It is a local Class D airport located just west of Atlanta and the nearest airport to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (which is just south of Atlanta), and handles much of the general aviation traffic that would otherwise go there. The airport exists below and in close proximity to ATL's Class B airspace.

It is located very near Interstate 20, Interstate 285, and the Chattahoochee River, just outside the Atlanta city limits. It reports ASOS weather conditions 24 hours per day as West Atlanta. It also acted as the nearest backup weather station when Dobbins Air Reserve Base did not report overnight.