Brunswick Executive Airport
Brunswick Executive Airport (IATA: NHZ, ICAO: KBXM, FAA LID: BXM) is a public use general aviation airport located two nautical miles (4 km) southeast of the central business district of Brunswick, a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. It is owned by the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority.[2]
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![]() Brunswick Executive Airport (as NAS Brunswick), October 2009 | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner | Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Brunswick, Maine | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 75 ft / 23 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 43°53′32″N 069°56′20″W | ||||||||||||||
Website | BrunswickExecutiveAirport.com | ||||||||||||||
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The airport is located on the site of the former Naval Air Station Brunswick. The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure committee recommended the closure of NAS Brunswick. The airport was opened for civilian aircraft use in June 2011.[3]
The airport is the central focus of Brunswick Landing: Maine's Center for Innovation, a business park.[4]
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned BXM by the FAA[2] but has no designation from the IATA[5] (which assigned BXM to Batom Airport in Indonesia).[6] The airport's ICAO identifier is KBXM.[7]
Facilities
Brunswick Executive Airport covers an area of 720 acres (291 ha) at an elevation of 75 feet (23 m) above mean sea level. It has an asphalt paved runway, 1R/19L, measuring 8,000 by 200 feet (2,438 x 61 m).[2] There is also former runway 1L/19R that is closed and now marked with an X.[8] There also several closed taxiways.[9][10]
See also
- Brunswick Naval Air Station
References
- "Airline and Airport Code Search". IATA. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
- FAA Airport Form 5010 for BXM PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective May 31, 2012.
- Levesque, Steve (June 17, 2011). "Update on Brunswick Landing". The Times Record. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
- "Reuse panel announces name for base property". The Times Record. March 17, 2010.
- "Brunswick Executive Airport (ICAO: KBXM, FAA: BXM, IATA: none)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved July 25, 2012.
- "Batom Airport, Indonesia (IATA: BXM)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved July 25, 2012.
- "Brunswick Executive – BXM (KBXM)". National Flight Data Center. Federal Aviation Administration. Retrieved July 25, 2012.
- "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 2019-02-09.
- "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 2019-02-09.
- "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 2019-02-09.
External links
- Official website
- FAA Terminal Procedures for BXM, effective January 28, 2021
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for BXM
- AirNav airport information for BXM
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for BXM