University of Oklahoma Westheimer Airport


University of Oklahoma Westheimer Airport is a public use airport in Norman, in Cleveland County, Oklahoma. It is owned by the University of Oklahoma. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a reliever airport.
The Cleveland County Composite Squadron of Civil Air Patrol meets on Tuesday evenings in a hangar provided by the City of Norman, east of the terminal.

History

Built as a civil airport on land donated by the Neustadt family in the name of their uncle Max Westheimer to the University of Oklahoma and land from the city of Norman, Oklahoma, it was taken over by the U.S. Navy in 1941 and expanded as a training field. It was transferred back to the university after the war.

Facilities

The airport covers 727 acres at an elevation of 1,182 feet. It has two asphalt runways: 18/36 is 5,199 by 100 feet and 3/21 is 4,748 by 100 feet.
In the year ended September 30, 2015, the airport had 48,700 aircraft operations, an average of 133 per day: 47,419 general aviation, 756 military, 520 air taxi and 5 air carrier operations. 105 aircraft were based at the airport: 77 single-engine, 20 multi-engine, and 8 jet. In addition to the fixed wing aircraft, eight helicopters were based at Westheimer Airport.