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Addison Airport is a busy general-aviation and business-jet field in Dallas County, Texas, just north of downtown Dallas and within a few miles of both Dallas Love Field and Dallas-Fort Worth International. Home to a large number of based aircraft and several flight schools, it offers a single, well-equipped instrument runway and a Class D tower environment that makes it a popular training and corporate destination for pilots flying in the North Dallas area.
Addison Airport sits in the town of Addison, in the heart of the North Dallas business district, and has served as a dedicated general-aviation and business-aviation field since the late 1950s. It is a single-runway airport but handles a high volume of traffic, including flight training, air taxi and corporate jet movements, making it a lively and instructive destination for a simulator pilot practising airspace and radio work in a busy Class D environment.
The airport lies in Dallas County, Texas, about nine miles north of downtown Dallas, roughly ten miles northeast of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and six miles north of Dallas Love Field. The airspace at Addison is Class D, with a ceiling up to but not including 3,000 feet MSL. Dallas/Fort Worth Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) provides separation services, workload permitting, for VFR aircraft flying practice instrument approaches into Addison. Pilots should also be aware of the nearby Air Park-Dallas Airport (F69), which lies close to Addison and shares a similar 16/34 runway orientation, and should review relevant local notices for traffic in that vicinity.
Addison has a single physical runway, 16/34, a hard-surfaced, lit runway equipped with an ILS. The declared length is 6,214 feet for Runway 16 and 6,429 feet for Runway 34. Field elevation is 636 feet.
Addison's radio environment includes an air traffic control tower operating on 126 MHz, which also serves as the CTAF, with ground control on 121.6 MHz and clearance delivery on 119.55 MHz. ATIS is broadcast on 133.4 MHz, and UNICOM is available on 122.95 MHz. Dallas/Fort Worth TRACON handles regional approach and departure control on 124.3 MHz and provides separation for VFR aircraft flying practice instrument approaches into Addison, workload permitting. The airport is equipped with an ILS approach to support instrument arrivals.
Addison operates under Class D airspace with an active control tower, so arriving and departing traffic should expect standard tower-controlled circuit and pattern procedures on the published tower/CTAF frequency of 126 MHz. Pilots flying practice instrument approaches can expect radar separation services from Dallas/Fort Worth TRACON on 124.3 MHz when traffic and workload allow.
Addison Airport traces its origins to the mid-1950s, when businessman W.T. Overton purchased farmland north of the original Addison townsite with the intention of building an airfield specifically for business jets, then a novel concept in the region. Overton and his partners incorporated Addison Airport, Inc., choosing the site because Dallas County held one of the largest concentrations of aircraft owners in Texas, itself second only to California in aircraft ownership, and because the northern part of the county was attracting affluent residential development likely to include aircraft owners. Henry Stuart, previously manager of the nearby Park Cities Airport, was recruited to manage the new field. The airport opened in 1954, with a formal grand opening held on 18 October 1957; at that time it covered 368 acres with a single 7,203 by 100 foot concrete runway. The town of Addison purchased the airport in 1976. The field has seen periods of tragedy alongside its growth, including a fatal accident on 19 July 1986, when a Cessna 421 crashed shortly after takeoff following an apparent engine failure, killing all four occupants aboard.
Addison Airport today is a major general-aviation hub for the North Dallas area, home to nearly 600 based aircraft and supporting more than 120,000 aircraft operations a year, the large majority of which are general aviation and air-taxi flights. The field hosts numerous flight schools and is served by three fixed-base operators, an FAA control tower, and round-the-clock US Customs facilities. Traffic ranges from light training aircraft such as the Cessna 150 up to corporate jets using the same single runway.
