Somerset Airport is a public-use airport in Bedminster Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. It is located three miles (5 km) north of the central business district of Somerville and is privately owned by Somerset Air Service, Inc. The airport is also known as George Walker Field.Somerset Airport: History (official site)
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Somerset Airport is assigned SMQ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned SMQ to Sampit Airport in Indonesia).Great Circle Mapper: KSMQ – Somerville, New Jersey (Somerset Airport)Great Circle Mapper: SMQ / WAOS – Sampit, Borneo, Indonesia
Facilities and aircraft Somerset Airport covers an area of which contains three runways: Runway 12/30: 2,739 × 65 ft (835 × 20 m), surface: asphalt Runway 8/26: 1,923 × 100 ft (586 × 30 m), surface: turf Runway 17/35: 1,700 × 150 ft (518 × 46 m), surface: turf
For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2023, the airport had 43,700 aircraft operations, an average of 120 per day, all of which were general aviation. As of April 30, 2023, there were 92 aircraft based at this airport: 83 single-engine, 4 multi-engine, 3 helicopters, and 2 gliders.
2017 Presidential temporary flight restrictions Somerset Airport is within a 10-mile radius of the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and thereby subject to FAA flight restrictions whenever President Donald Trump is in Bedminster. Thus, the airport was shut down from August 4–20, 2017 while Trump resided in Bedminster.FAA regulations for Bedminster area, August 2, 2017
See also List of airports in New Jersey
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