Agenda Information Sheet
DEPARTMENT: Transportation
DCM: Bryan Langley
Date: April 11, 2017
SUBJECT
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Receive a report, hold a discussion and provide direction regarding the design and project schedule for the proposed parallel runway at the Denton Enterprise Airport.
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BACKGROUND
The Denton Enterprise Airport is one of eleven designated general aviation airports in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex designated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as a Reliever Airport. In FY 2015, the Denton Airport experienced more than 165,000 operations and in FY 2016 the Denton Airport experienced more than 137,000 operations. In FY 2015, in terms of total operations (one landing or one departure) the Denton Airport ranked 7th in the State of Texas as compared to all airports including commercial service airports statewide. The number of operations taking place at Denton Airport is impressive due to fact that the airport has a single runway. Each of the airports exceeding the number of operations experienced at Denton have multiple runways, which enhances the ability of those airports to support additional operations.
Based on the volume of air traffic experienced at the Denton Airport, the 2015 Airport Master Plan recommended the design and construction of a parallel runway. The Texas Department of Transportation, Aviation Division (TxDOT) embraced this recommendation and included the cost of design and construction of a west parallel runway in their annual Capital Improvement Program (CIP) planning document. TxDOT's justification for funding the west runway was to separate the high volume of training traffic which is typically a slower, lighter, single engine aircraft, from the remaining air traffic operations on the primary runway that includes heavier faster jet and turbine aircraft. To this end, TxDOT agreed to fund an auxiliary runway of 4,500 feet long and, 75 feet wide with an aircraft design weight of 12,500 pounds. The additional c...
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