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Airport Directory » United States » Roswell » Industrial AirportAirport information for Industrial AirportCountry: United StatesLocation: Roswell Coordinates: 33.25.00N / 104.33.00W IATA Code: ROW Timezone: GMT -7 Direct flights form Industrial Airport Direct flights to Industrial Airport Find connecting flights to Industrial Airport Find connecting flights from Industrial Airport |
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Roswell International Air Center (RIAC) (IATA: ROW, ICAO: KROW, FAA LID: ROW), also known as Roswell Industrial Air Center, is a city-owned public-use airport turn up 3 land mile (five kilometre) southward of the central downtown of Roswell, a town in Chaves County, New Mexico, United States.
History
From 1941 to 1967, the installation was known as Roswell Army Airfield during World War II, and Walker Air Force Base during the Cold War. At the clip of its closing, it was the biggest found of the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command. Roswell International Air Center was germinated after the closing of Walker Air Force Base on 30 June 1967.
Walker AFB was named after General Kenneth Newton Walker, a native of Los Cerrillos, New Mexico. He was assassination during a bombing foreign mission over Rabaul, New Britain, Papua, New Guinea. on January 5, 1943. Though stopped by enemy scrapper, his group tallied direct hits on 9 Japanese ships. General Walker was last seen going forth the target area with 1 engine on fire and several scrapper on his tail. For his activenesses, General Walker was presented the Medal of Honor posthumously by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943.
The ground was renamed in his honour on January 13, 1948. Walker Hall, at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, place of the College of Aerospace Doctrine Research and Education, is also named after the general.
In 1966, the Air Force denoted that Walker AFB shall be closed. This was during a round of ground shutting and integrations as the Defense Department fought to pay the disbursements of the Vietnam War within the budgetary boundaries position by Congress.
It is also known for the Roswell UFO incident, an event that purportedly take place on four July 1947. It is say that a "winging saucer" crashed during a severe electrical storm near RIAC at Corona, New Mexico.
The location also was used for several yr to establish stratospheric balloons for Air Force labors.
Facilities and aircraft
Roswell International Air Center Airport covers an area of 5,029 acres (2,035 ha) which incorporates 3 paved landing track:
- Runway 3/21: 13,001 x 150 foot. (3,963 x 46 m), Surface: Asphalt/Concrete
- Runway 12/30: 7,425 x 200 foot. (2,263 x 61 m), Surface: Asphalt/Concrete
- Runway 17/35: 9,999 x 100 foot. (3,048 x 30 m), Surface: Asphalt
For the 12-month time period finish October 31, 2007, the airport had 43,990 aircraft functioning, an mean of 120 per solar day: 51% civil aviation, 31% armed forces, 18% air cab and <1% scheduled commercial. At that clip there were 46 aircraft ground at this airport: 76% single-engine, 17% multi-engine, 4% jet plane and 2% eggbeater.
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