St. Elmo Airport

St. Elmo Airport
St Elmo Army Auxiliary Airfield
St. Elmo Airport; St Elmo Army Auxiliary Airfield
	NAIP aerial image, 2006
	IATA: none; ICAO: none; FAA LID: 2R5;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Mobile Airport Authority
Serves	St. Elmo, Alabama
Elevation AMSL	132 ft / 40 m
Coordinates	30°30′07″N 088°16′30″W / 30.50194°N 88.27500°W
Map
	2R5 Location of St. Elmo Airport 2R5 2R5 (the United States)
Runways
Statistics (2010)
Aircraft operations
Aircraft operations	20,400
Based aircraft	31
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

St. Elmo Airport (FAA LID: 2R5) is a public-use airport located two nautical miles (2.3 mi, 3.7 km) west of the central business district of St. Elmo, in Mobile County, Alabama, United States.^[1] It is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.^[2]

Facilities and aircraft edit

St. Elmo Airport covers an area of 733 acres (297 ha) at an elevation of 132 feet (40 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 6/24 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,998 by 80 feet (1,219 x 24 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending May 18, 2010, the airport had 20,400 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 55 per day. At that time there were 31 aircraft based at this airport: 71% single-engine, 7% multi-engine, 3% jet, 3% helicopter and 16% ultralight.^[1]

World War II edit

During World War II, the airport was used as an auxiliary airfield for the Army contract flying school at Bates Army Airfield in Mobile. The contract flying school operated between 1942 and 1944.