Newton Airport (New Jersey)

For other uses, see Newton Airport (disambiguation).

Newton Airport (FAA LID: 3N5) was a privately owned, public-use airport three miles south of Newton, in Sussex County, New Jersey.^[1] It closed in 2013, after it was purchased for $3.5M by Public Service Electric & Gas Company to be used to stage electrical power equipment used in constructing new transmission lines.^[2] FAA removed it from the A/FD and listed it as closed in the June 27, 2013 edition.^[3]

Newton Airport
IATA: none ICAO: none FAA LID: 3N5
Summary
Airport type	Public use
Owner	RRL Group
Operator	Stella Jump
Serves	Newton, New Jersey
Location	Sussex County, New Jersey
Elevation AMSL	620 ft / 189 m
Coordinates	41°01′38″N 074°45′31″W
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 6/24 2,546 776 Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations 10,705 Based aircraft 18
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Facilities

Newton Airport covered 90 acres (36 ha); its asphalt runway was 6/24 2,546 x 45 ft. In 2008 the airport had 10,695 general aviation operations. 18 aircraft were then based at this airport: 56% ultralight, 39% single-engine and 6% helicopter.^[1]