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Charlotte Douglas International Airport ( IATA: CLT, ICAO: KCLT, FAA LID: CLT) is an international airport serving Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, located roughly 6 miles (9.7 km) west of the city's central business district. Charlotte Douglas is the primary airport for commercial and military use in the Charlotte metropolitan area.
USAir Flight 1016 was a regularly scheduled flight in the southeastern United States, between Columbia, South Carolina, and Charlotte, North Carolina. [1]: 1 On July 2, 1994, the flight encountered heavy thunderstorms and microburst-induced windshear while attempting to land, and crashed into heavy trees and a private residence near the airport.
Eastern Air Lines Flight 212. / 35.15389°N 80.92611°W / 35.15389; -80.92611. Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 was a controlled flight into terrain accident of a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 during approach to Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina. The incident occurred on September 11, 1974, killing 72 of the 82 people on board.
American Airlines’ largest plane, the 304-seat Boeing 777-300ER, will begin flying daily out of Charlotte Douglas International Airport to London Heathrow starting on Nov. 5.
This is a list of airports in North Carolina (a U.S. state ), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or ...
In 2022, the airport saw 48 million customers, according to CLT. Last year, Charlotte Douglas reported a record-breaking count of 53.4 million passengers, while aircraft arrivals and departures ...
The Sullenberger Aviation Museum, formerly the Carolinas Aviation Museum, [ 2] is an aviation museum on the grounds of Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina . It is one of a few aviation museums located at an airport which serves as a major hub (Charlotte is the #2 hub for American Airlines ).
Piedmont Airlines. Piedmont Airlines was a local service carrier, a scheduled carrier in the United States that operated from 1948 until it merged with USAir in 1989. Its headquarters were at One Piedmont Plaza in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, a building that is now part of Wake Forest University. [ 1][ 2] In April 1989, shortly before it ...