Newport State Airport (IATA: NPT[2], ICAO: KUUU, FAA LID: UUU) (officially known as the Colonel Robert F. Wood Air Park)[3] is a state-owned public-use airport in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States.[1] It serves the city of Newport and is located 2 nmi (2.3 mi; 3.7 km) northeast of its central business district.[1] This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[4] There is no scheduled airline service available, but it once was served by Air New England.

Newport State Airport
IATA: NPT ICAO: KUUU FAA LID: UUU
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	State of Rhode Island
Operator	Rhode Island Airport Corp.
Serves	Newport, Rhode Island
Location	Middletown, Rhode Island
Elevation AMSL	171 ft / 52 m
Coordinates	41°31′57″N 071°16′54″W
Website	pvdairport.com
Map
UUU Location of airport in Rhode Island/United States Show map of Rhode Island UUU UUU (the United States) Show map of the United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 4/22 2,999 914 Asphalt 16/34 2,623 799 Asphalt
Statistics (2011)
Aircraft operations 20,238 Based aircraft 34
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned UUU by the FAA[1] and NPT by the IATA[5] (which assigned UUU to Manumu, Papua New Guinea).[6][7]

Newport State Airport is one of six active airports operated by the Rhode Island Airport Corporation, the other five being T.F. Green State Airport, North Central State Airport, Westerly State Airport, Quonset State Airport, and Block Island State Airport.

History

The airport site was known as Southwick's Grove in the mid-to-late 1800s. At the turn of the twentieth century the site was home to Aquidneck Park, a horse racing track. Wealthy summer residents such as Willie K Vanderbilt, John Jacob Astor and I. Townsend Burden would occasionally race automobiles of various types there. The property was renamed Bethshan-in-the-Woods by Mrs. Theodore K. Gibbs, who had purchased it to preserve the property as a picnic ground for children.[8]

Army Air Force Captain Robert F. Wood established the Newport Air Park on the site in 1946.[9] It appears on topographical maps of the area by 1958 with two airstrips—one along the current 4/22 orientation, and a nearly perpendicular one. They were paved by 1953, when the airport received an Air Force contract to maintain planes for keeping local Air Force pilots current.[10]

The airport site was acquired by the state in July 1960, and new construction of the runways and taxiways was completed by September 1967.[11] In July 1964, the first aircraft accident at the Newport airport (a gear-up landing) was documented by the National Transportation Safety Board.[12] The first fatal accident at Newport State Airport was a mid-air collision between two general aviation aircraft on April 23, 1969. In 2011 part of the film Moonrise Kingdom was filmed at the airport.[13]

Facilities and aircraft

Newport State Airport covers an area of 221 acres (89 ha; 0.89 km²) at an elevation of 171 ft (52 m) above mean sea level.

It has two runways with asphalt surfaces:

• Runway 4/22 is 2,999 by 75 ft (914 by 23 m).[1]
• Runway 16/34 is 2,623 by 75 ft (799 by 23 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2011, the airport had 20,238 aircraft operations, an average of 55 per day: 98% general aviation, 2% air taxi, and <1% military. At that time there were 34 aircraft based at this airport: 85% single-engine, 9% multi-engine, and 6% helicopter.[1]

Airlines and destinations

This section does not cite any sources. (January 2022)

Domestic destinations map
White Plains All domestic destinations from Newport State Airport (Rhode Island) (KUUU) • Green = Seasonal destination

References

External links

• Newport State Airport (UUU) page from Rhode Island Airport Corp.
• Airfield photos of Newport State Airport (UUU) from U.S. Civil Air Patrol at the Wayback Machine (archived August 14, 2007)
• Aerial image as of March 1995 from USGS The National Map
• FAA Terminal Procedures for Newport State Airport (UUU), effective May 19, 2022

• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for UUU
  • AirNav airport information for KUUU
  • ASN accident history for NPT
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures

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