Cobb County Airport – McCollum Field - Kennesaw, GA
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Cobb County Airport at McCollum Field (IATA: RYY, ICAO: KRYY) is a general aviation airport located immediately south of Kennesaw in Cobb County, Georgia, United States. It is also designated as a weather station, although it does not operate between the hours of midnight and six o’clock a.m..
Waymark Code: WME73
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 06/04/2006
Views: 232
The airport is located on nearly 320 acres of land, has one runway which is currently 6,305 feet long, and has a control tower. The runway is east-west oriented, with headings of 093 and 273 degrees magnetic. The airfield sits at 1,040 feet above sea level. There are over 300 aircraft based at McCollum, most of them being single engine.
McCollum Field opened in 1960 with a single 4,000 foot runway. There was a stub taxiway connecting the runway with the ramp area, 60,000 square feet of aprons, and a single administration building. The airport steadily grew over the next 30 years with the greatest developments occurring in the early 1990s.
In 1991, the airport layout plan was first revised. The first full service fixed base operator opened in 1992. A second full service fixed base operator opened a year later. That same year, the Georgia State Patrol Hangar was constructed. The Air Traffic Control Tower was opened in 1995, followed by an Instrument Landing System glide slope the next year. Over the course of the decade, there were four major purchases of new land at a total cost of $3.8 million in grants and an unspecified amount in local funds. In addition, 6 new hangars were built.
McCollum Field was first designed as a small field for general aviation. It is designated as a reliever airport for Hartsfield-Jackson Airport and DeKalb-Peachtree Airport. Cobb County is also the primary general aviation airport for the Atlanta suburban population. With an average of 350 takeoffs and landings each day, it is the third most trafficked airport in Georgia.
Today the Airport has 311 aircraft, 258 of them being single engine. 49 percent of operations are single engine and 49 percent are multi-engine. Only 1 percent of operations are air taxi. No major commercial airlines service Cobb County Airport, but there are two charter companies and two major fixed base operators. Aerial tours are very popular at the airport, as the Appalachian Mountains are less than a 30 minute flight away.
McCollum Field is owned by Cobb County, operated by the County Department of Transportation characterizing it as a municipal airport. It is managed by a full-time, professional airport manager. The airport employs almost 200 people, and had an annual economic impact of more than $47 million to the local economy in 2002.
Type: Municipal
ICAO Airport Code: RYY
IATA Airport Code: Not listed
FAA Identifier: Not listed
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