Eagle Creek Airpark is a public use airport

Airport

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 located seven nautical miles (13 km) west of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Indianapolis

Indianapolis, Indiana

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, a city in Marion County

Marion County, Indiana

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, Indiana

Indiana

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, United States

United States

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. It is owned by the Indianapolis Airport Authority and serves as a reliever airport for Indianapolis International Airport

Indianapolis International Airport

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Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier

Location identifier

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 for the FAA

Federal Aviation Administration

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 and IATA

International Air Transport Association

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, this airport is assigned EYE by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.

Facilities and aircraft

Eagle Creek Airpark covers an area of 315 acres (127.5 ha) at an elevation

Elevation

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 of 823 feet (251 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt

Asphalt

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 paved runway

Runway

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 designated 3/21 which measures 4,200 by 75 feet (1,280 x 23 m).

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2007, the airport had 46,371 aircraft operations, an average of 127 per day: 94% general aviation

General aviation

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 and 6% air taxi

Air taxi

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. At that time there were 103 aircraft based at this airport: 83% single-engine

Aircraft engine

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, 14% multi-engine, 1% jet

Jet aircraft

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 and 2% helicopter

Helicopter

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Eagle Creek Aviation Services, the airport's fixed base operator

Fixed base operator

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 (FBO) is an authorized service center for Cessna Citation

Cessna Citation

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, Cirrus Design

Cirrus Design

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 and Twin Commander aircraft. ECAS is also one of the eight U.S. service centers for the Embraer Phenom.

Media appearances

Eagle Creek Airpark (as Eagle Creek Airport) appears in three of the missions supplied with Microsoft Flight Simulator X

Microsoft Flight Simulator X

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External links

• Eagle Creek Airpark, official page from Indianapolis Airport Authority
• Aerial photo from Indiana Department of Transportation
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• Aerial photo at Airliners.net
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