Fulton County Airport (Georgia)
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{| class="infobox bordered" style="width: 220px; font-size: 95%;" |- ! colspan="4" style="text-align: center; background-color: #4682B4; color: white;" |Fulton County Airport
(Charlie Brown Field)
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- For other airports with this name, see Fulton County Airport.
It is located very near Interstate 20, Interstate 285, and the Chattahoochee River, just outside the Atlanta city limits. It reports ASOS weather conditions 24 hours per day as West Atlanta. It also acts as the nearest backup station when Dobbins Air Reserve Base does not report overnight.
Its name comes not from Charlie Brown, the principal character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, but from the nickname for former Atlanta politician Charles M. Brown, who served on the city council and county commission during the 1960s. It is also called Charlie Brown Airport or Brown Field (not to be mistaken for the word "brownfield").
The “hundred dollar hamburger” is a widely recognized term in the aviation industry, referring to the “fly in” restaurants at or near general aviation airports. Fulton County Airport is host of one such place with the busy "Flight Deck Cafe" located in the main terminal building serving Southern-style food to a lunch-time crowd of locals, pilots and airport personnel.
External links
- [Fulton County Airport webpage]
- Resources for this airport:
- * AirNav [airport information for KFTY]
- * FlightAware [airport information] and [live flight tracker]
- * NOAA/NWS [current] and [historical] weather observations
- * SkyVector [aeronautical chart for KFTY]
- * FAA [current FTY delay information]
- [Maps and aerial photos]
- * WikiSatellite view at [WikiMapia]
- * Street map from [MapQuest] or [Google Local]
- * Topographic map from [TopoZone]
- * Aerial image or topographic map from [TerraServer-USA]
- * Satellite image from [Google Maps] or [Microsoft Virtual Earth]
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