Abstract: The Airport Runways database is a geographic dataset of runways in the United States and US territories containing information on the physical characteristics of the runways. The 5585 runways in the dataset are runways associated with the 20362 airports in the companion airport data set. This geospatial data is derived from the FAA's National Airspace System Resource Aeronautical Data Product (Effective 18 January 2007).
Purpose: This data provides users with information about the runway locations and attributes for national and regional analysis applications.
Field Number
Attribute
Description
Data Type
0
FID
Internal feature number.
Long Integer representing an object identifier
1
Shape
Feature geometry.
Geometry
2
LOCID
A unique 3-4 character identifier assigned to the landing facility (i.e. airport).
Character String
3
SITENO
A unique identifying number followed by an asterisk and the 'landing facility type' code. The SITE_NO forms the key to the airport records in the NFDC (5010) database. Example: 04508.*A
The physical runway length, to the nearest foot. (Ex. 3500)
Character String
9
RWY_WITH
The physical runway width, to the nearest foot. (Ex. 100)
Character String
10
RWY_SFC_TY
Runway surface type and condition. (NOTE 1: Surface type can have one entry or a combination of two entries when the runway is composed of distinct sections.) (NOTE 2: The surface type is optionally followed by a condition indicator: G=Good Condition, F=Fair Condition, P=Poor Condition. Some valid examples for this attribute: ASPH-CONC, ASPH-F, ASPH-CONC-G)
Character String
11
RWY_SFC_TR
Runway Surface treatment
Character String
12
PAV_CLASS_
Pavement Classification Number (PCN): A rating system that expresses the relative load carrying capacity of a pavement in terms of a standard single wheel load.
Character String
13
RWY_LIGHTS
Runway lights edge intensity
Character String
14
STFIPS
The 2-character FIPS code of the State or State equivalent
Character String
15
ST_POSTAL
Runway state post office code
Character String
16
VERSION
The VERSION is a 2-digit number that will be incremented for all records in the database whenever a new release is distributed.
