Eagles Nest Airport (New Jersey)
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Eagles Nest Airport is a privately-owned public-use airport
serving general aviation
aircraft. It was built in April 1989. It is located two nautical mile
s (3.704 km
) north of the community of West Creek
, in Eagleswood Township
, New Jersey
.
An accident occurred there in May 2008 involving a general aviation craft crash landing into the woods a few hundred feet way from the runway.
Airport
An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...
serving general aviation
General aviation
General aviation is one of the two categories of civil aviation. It refers to all flights other than military and scheduled airline and regular cargo flights, both private and commercial. General aviation flights range from gliders and powered parachutes to large, non-scheduled cargo jet flights...
aircraft. It was built in April 1989. It is located two nautical mile
Nautical mile
The nautical mile is a unit of length that is about one minute of arc of latitude along any meridian, but is approximately one minute of arc of longitude only at the equator...
s (3.704 km
Kilometre
The kilometre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres and is therefore exactly equal to the distance travelled by light in free space in of a second...
) north of the community of West Creek
West Creek, New Jersey
West Creek is an unincorporated area or informal "village" located within Eagleswood Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey, in the United States.-History:The village is named after the stream that runs through it, West Creek...
, in Eagleswood Township
Eagleswood Township, New Jersey
Eagleswood Township is a Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2010 Census, the township population had increased to a record high of 1,603....
, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
.
An accident occurred there in May 2008 involving a general aviation craft crash landing into the woods a few hundred feet way from the runway.