New Castle Municipal Airport

{{Short description|Airport in Pennsylvania, US}}

{{about|the airport in Pennsylvania|other similarly named airports|New Castle Airport (disambiguation)}}

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

{{Infobox airport

| name = New Castle Municipal Airport

| image = New Castle Municipal Airport 20241214 (8).jpg

| image_map = KUCP Airport Diagram.png

| image_map_caption = Airport diagram

| IATA =

| ICAO = KUCP

| FAA = UCP

| type = Public

| owner = Lawrence County Airport Authority

| operator =

| city-served = New Castle, Pennsylvania

| location = Union Township

| elevation-f = 1070

| elevation-m = 326

| coordinates = {{coord|41|01|31|N|080|24|48|W|region:US-PA_type:airport_scale:10000}}

| website =

| r1-number = 5/23

| r1-length-f = 3,995

| r1-length-m = 1,218

| r1-surface = Asphalt

| r2-number = 13/31

| r2-length-f = 2,475

| r2-length-m = 837

| r2-surface = Asphalt

| stat-year = 2009

| stat1-header = Aircraft operations

| stat1-data = 35,357

| stat2-header = Based aircraft

| stat2-data = 58

| footnotes = Source: Federal Aviation Administration{{FAA-airport|ID=UCP|use=PU|own=PU|site=21029.*A}}, effective July 2, 2009.

}}

New Castle Municipal Airport {{airport codes||KUCP|UCP}} is a small municipal airport located in Union Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania serving Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Union Township is an outskirt of New Castle, Pennsylvania hence the name. The airport is located four nautical miles (7 km) northwest of the central business district of New Castle. The airport is a public-owned airport and is controlled by the Lawrence County Airport Authority.

This airport is assigned a three-letter location identifier of UCP by the Federal Aviation Administration, but it does not have an International Air Transport Association (IATA) airport code.{{cite web

| url = http://www.iata.org/publications/Pages/code-search.aspx

| title = Airline and Airport Code Search

| publisher = International Air Transport Association (IATA)

| access-date = November 14, 2016

}}{{cite web

| url = http://gc.kls2.com/airport/KUCP

| title = New Castle Municipal Airport (IATA: none, ICAO: KUCP, FAA: UCP)

| publisher = Great Circle Mapper

| access-date = November 14, 2016

}}

Facilities and aircraft

New Castle Municipal Airport covers an area of {{convert|320|acre|ha|lk=on}} at an elevation of 1,070 feet (326 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 5/23 is 3,995 by 75 feet (1,218 x 23 m) and 13/31 is 2,745 by 100 feet (837 x 30 m).

The airport's fixed-base operator (FBO) is Haski Aviation.

For the 12-month period ending February 28, 2009, the airport had 35,357 aircraft operations, an average of 96 per day: 97% general aviation, 3% air taxi and <1% military. At that time there were 58 aircraft based at this airport: 96% single-engine, 2% multi-engine and 2% helicopter.

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