atlantic city international airport (iata: acy, icao: kacy, faa lid: acy) is a shared civil-military airport 10 miles (16 km) northwest of atlantic city, new jersey, in egg harbor township, the pomona section of galloway township and in hamilton township.the airport is accessible via exit 9 on the atlantic city expressway.the facility is operated by the south jersey transportation authority (sjta) and the port authority of new york and new jersey, which performs select management functions.most of the land is owned by the federal aviation administration and leased to the sjta, while the sjta owns the terminal building.the facility also is a base for the new jersey air national guard's 177th fighter wing operating the f-16c/d fighting falcon, and the united states coast guard's coast guard air station atlantic city operating the eurocopter hh-65 dolphin.the airport is next to the faa's william j. hughes technical center, a major research and testing hub for the federal aviation administration and a training center for the federal air marshal service.it was also a designated alternative landing site for the space shuttle.the airport is served by spirit airlines which operates airbus a319, airbus a320 and airbus a321 jetliners.additionally, caesars entertainment has flights to cities east of the mississippi river on its caesars rewards air.this is offered as a scheduled charter year-round.united airlines operated a series of flights starting in april 2014, but decided the flights were not viable and discontinued service on december 3, 2014.the south jersey transportation authority has outlined plans for massive terminal expansions (on top of current initiatives) which might be needed if more airlines serve the airport.passenger traffic at the airport in 2011 was 1,404,119, making it the 102nd busiest airport in the country.the sjta owns a small area around the terminal and leases runways and other land from the faa.its purpose was to train various carrier air groups consisting of fighter, bomber and torpedo squadrons.in august 1943, nas atlantic city changed its mission to strictly fighter training, consisting of low and high altitude gunnery tactics, field carrier landing practice (fclp), carrier qualifications (cq), bombing, formation tactics, fighter direction, night operations and an associated ground school curriculum.nas atlantic city was decommissioned in june 1958 and transferred to the airways modernization board (amb), later taken over by the faa.in november 1958 the then-federal aviation agency, now federal aviation administration (faa), took over operations of the amb.the lease transferred to the faa and was sold for $55,000.atlantic city decided to retain 84 of the 4,312 acres.the faa expanded the former u.s. navy land parcel to about 5,000 acres (20 km2) and established the national aviation facilities experimental center research facility that eventually became the william j. hughes technical center.the south jersey transportation authority (sjta) initially leased portions of the airport from the faa and now serves as the airport owner and operator of the facility.when the navy departed in 1958, the 119th fighter squadron of the new jersey air national guard relocated to atlantic city from their former base at newark international airport with their f-84f thunderstreak aircraft, establishing an air national guard base on the site of the former naval air station.the current 177th fighter wing of the new jersey air national guard has been at this location ever since.during the 1960s and early 1970s, the active duty u.s. air force's 95th fighter interceptor squadron, stationed at dover afb, delaware, maintained an operating location and alert detachment of f-106 delta darts at atlantic city angb on 24-hour alert.after the 177th fighter wing reequipped with the f-106 in 1973, the 177th took on the air defence alert mission.
atlantic city international airport | operatingorganisation | port authority of new york and new jersey
atlantic city international airport (iata: acy, icao: kacy, faa lid: acy) is a shared civil-military airport 10 miles (16 km) northwest of atlantic city, new jersey, in egg harbor township, the pomona section of galloway township and in hamilton township.the airport is accessible via exit 9 on the atlantic city expressway.most of the land is owned by the federal aviation administration and leased to the sjta, while the sjta owns the terminal building.the facility also is a base for the new jersey air national guard's 177th fighter wing operating the f-16c/d fighting falcon, and the united states coast guard's coast guard air station atlantic city operating the eurocopter hh-65 dolphin.the airport is next to the faa's william j. hughes technical center, a major research and testing hub for the federal aviation administration and a training center for the federal air marshal service.the airport is served by spirit airlines which operates airbus a319, airbus a320 and airbus a321 jetliners.the south jersey transportation authority has outlined plans for massive terminal expansions (on top of current initiatives) which might be needed if more airlines serve the airport.passenger traffic at the airport in 2011 was 1,404,119, making it the 102nd busiest airport in the country.its purpose was to train various carrier air groups consisting of fighter, bomber and torpedo squadrons.in august 1943, nas atlantic city changed its mission to strictly fighter training, consisting of low and high altitude gunnery tactics, field carrier landing practice (fclp), carrier qualifications (cq), bombing, formation tactics, fighter direction, night operations and an associated ground school curriculum.nas atlantic city was decommissioned in june 1958 and transferred to the airways modernization board (amb), later taken over by the faa.the south jersey transportation authority (sjta) initially leased portions of the airport from the faa and now serves as the airport owner and operator of the facility.when the navy departed in 1958, the 119th fighter squadron of the new jersey air national guard relocated to atlantic city from their former base at newark international airport with their f-84f thunderstreak aircraft, establishing an air national guard base on the site of the former naval air station.during the 1960s and early 1970s, the active duty u.s. air force's 95th fighter interceptor squadron, stationed at dover afb, delaware, maintained an operating location and alert detachment of f-106 delta darts at atlantic city angb on 24-hour alert.