New Orleans Lakefront Airport
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Lakefront Airport is a public airport located in the city of New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA.
History
The airport was constructed in the mid 1930s on a man-made peninsula dredged by the Orleans Levee Board, jutting into Lake Pontchartrain on the Eastern New Orleans side of the Industrial Canal. It was originally named Shushan Airport after Levee Board president Abraham Shushan. The airport was inaugurated on 10 February, 1934.Originally the major commercial airport in the New Orleans area, it has since been supplanted in this arena by Louis Armstrong International Airport in the nearby suburb of Kenner. Lakefront Airport continues to serve as a general aviation airport with charter, private, and occasional military operations taking place. The art deco terminal building also houses a restaurant frequented by locals. The sculpture "Fountain of the Winds" by Enrique Alferez out front is a local landmark.
Lakefront Airport was damaged by hurricane winds and storm surge of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. While it was soon able to resume functioning, as of April 2006 many offices are still in temporary trailers while buildings are being repaired.
Codes
The new airport was given . Weather forecasts for the New Orleans metropolitan area now have neither of these codes, instead having LIX or KLIX for the National Weather Service location in Slidell, on the northeast side of the lake.External links
- [Lakefront Airport]
- [Story of the former name Shushan Airport]
- Resources for this airport:
- * AirNav [airport information for KNEW]
- * FlightAware [airport information] and [live flight tracker]
- * NOAA/NWS [current] and [historical] weather observations
- * SkyVector [aeronautical chart for KNEW]
- [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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