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which became TWA and remained until 1968. (DC-9s replaced TWA's last
Constellations in 1967; the 4970-ft runway was one of the shortest in the country to see airline jets.) Allegheny and Capital/United appeared in the 1940s; United pulled out in 1966.
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stationed the 101st and 103d
Observation Squadrons at Harrisburg early in the war to train pilots in observation and aerial photography. Later the Army Air Force formed the
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Capital City
Airport covers 320 acres (130 ha) and has two asphalt runways: 8/26 is 5,000 x 150 ft (1,524 x 46 m) and 12/30 is 3,778 x 100 ft (1,152 x 30 m).
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The airport (upper left) and vicinity on July 6, 2022; taken from the
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crashed on approach when it flew into the side of a hill, 5km (3.1 miles) SW of CXY. Twelve occupants out of 27 on board were killed.
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Capital Landing Field, the airport opened in mid-1930 and was Harrisburg's first airline airport. On October 25, 1930, a
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Harrisburg-York State Airport. It was a stop on longer air routes, principally between
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In the 1940s the airport handled war materials for the former adjacent
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267:Show map of the United States
814:airport information for KCXY
803:Resources for this airport:
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111:Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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