New Castle-Henry County Municipal Airport (ICAO: KUWL, FAA LID: UWL) is a public use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) southeast of the central business district of New Castle, a city in Henry County, Indiana, United States.[1] It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[2]

New Castle-Henry County Municipal Airport
IATA: none ICAO: KUWL FAA LID: UWL
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	New Castle/Henry County
Serves	New Castle, Indiana
Elevation AMSL	1,088 ft / 332 m
Coordinates	39°52′33″N 085°19′35″W
Map
UWL Location of airport in Indiana/United States Show map of Indiana UWL UWL (the United States) Show map of the United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 9/27 4,000 1,219 Asphalt
Statistics (2009)
Aircraft operations 5,854 Based aircraft 24
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned UWL by the FAA[1] but has no designation from the IATA.[3][4]

Facilities and aircraft

New Castle-Henry County Municipal Airport covers an area of 32 acres (13 ha) at an elevation of 1,088 feet (332 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 9/27 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,000 by 65 feet (1,219 x 20 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2009, the airport had 5,854 aircraft operations, an average of 16 per day: 96% general aviation and 4% air taxi. At that time there were 24 aircraft based at this airport: 79% single-engine, 17% multi-engine, and 4% ultralight.[1]

References

External links

• Airport page at City of New Castle website
• Aerial photo from Indiana DOT at the Wayback Machine (archived August 15, 2010)
• Aerial image as of March 1998 from USGS The National Map
• FAA Terminal Procedures for UWL, effective October 6, 2022
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for UWL
  • AirNav airport information for UWL
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for UWL