{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Airport","name":"Felker Army Air Field","iataCode":"FAF","icaoCode":"KFAF","city":"Newport News (Fort Eustis)","country":"US","airportType":"medium_airport","cargoCapable":false,"cargoRank":null,"confidenceLevel":null,"coordinates":{"latitude":37.1325,"longitude":-76.608803},"elevationMeters":4,"runwayLengthMeters":null,"description":"Two 600-foot runways and eight landing pads in a circular layout marked Felker Army Air Field (IATA: FAF, ICAO: KFAF) as the world's first purpose-built military heliport when it opened at Fort Eustis in 1954. Sitting beside Newport News, Virginia, it spent decades training helicopter crews on the UH-1 Huey, CH-47 Chinook and UH-60 Black Hawk. Only a handful of units remain today, including B Company, 5th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment. There is no commercial air cargo here; freight for the ","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/information/airports/felker-army-air-field-airport-faf","markdownMirror":"https://www.freight-academy.com/api/md/airports/en/felker-army-air-field-airport-faf","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Frachtportal","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com"},"quickSummary":"Felker Army Air Field · (IATA: FAF) · Newport News (Fort Eustis), US · 4 m"}