{{Short description|Airport in Texas, United States}} {{For|the Bishop's University stadium|Coulter Field (Bishop's)}} {{Use American English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox airport | name = Coulter Field | image = | IATA = CFD | ICAO = KCFD | FAA = CFD | pushpin_map = Texas | pushpin_map_caption = | pushpin_label = '''CFD''' | pushpin_label_position = bottom | type = Public | owner = City of Bryan | operator = | city-served = Bryan, Texas | location = | elevation-f = 367 | elevation-m = 112 | coordinates = {{coord|30|42|56|N|096|19|53|W|region:US_type:airport_scale:10000|display=inline, title}} | website = | r1-number = 15/33 | r1-length-f = 4,000 | r1-length-m = 1,219 | r1-surface = Asphalt | r2-number = <s>17/35</s> | r2-length-f = 1,330 | r2-length-m = 405 | r2-surface = <s>Turf</s> (Closed) | stat-year = 2023 | stat1-header = Aircraft operations (year ending 4/8/2023) | stat1-data = 16,200 | stat2-header = Based aircraft | stat2-data = 69 | footnotes = Source: Federal Aviation Administration<ref name="FAA">{{FAA-airport|ID=CFD|use=PU|own=PU|site=23506.*A}}, effective 2023-10-05.</ref> }}
'''Coulter Field''' {{airport codes|CFD|KCFD|CFD}} is a public airport three miles northeast of Bryan, in Brazos County, Texas.<ref name="FAA" /> It is owned by the City of Bryan<ref name="FAA" /> which is part of the Bryan-College Station area. The airport is used for general aviation.
==History== {{More citations needed section|date=November 2024}} Coulter Field has a long history with sport parachuting, with parachute jumps having been conducted since the mid-1950s. Ags Over Texas (AOT) was the home of the Texas A&M University skydiving team until its closure in 1999. In March 2002, Skydive Aggieland opened and is the current home of the Texas A&M University skydiving club. Texas governor Rick Perry completed a successful static-line skydive at AOT while he was attending Texas A&M University in the 1970s and former president George H. W. Bush (41) completed a tandem skydive at Coulter Field in cooperation with Skydive Aggieland and the Golden Knights a day prior to completing his last jump at his Presidential Library on Texas A&M University main campus.
==Facilities== Coulter Field covers {{convert|256|acre|ha}} at an elevation of 367 feet (112 m). Its runway, 15/33, is 4,000 by 75 feet (1,219 x 23 m).<ref name="FAA" /><ref>[http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=30.719836&lon=-96.333881&z=18&l=0&m=b&v=8 Aerial photo]</ref> A former turf runway, 17/35 is closed.
In the year ending April 8, 2023, the airport had 16,200 general aviation aircraft operations, average 44 per day. 73 aircraft were then based at the airport: 61 single-engine, 7 multi-engine, 3 jet, and 2 helicopter.<ref name="FAA" />
==See also== * List of airports in Texas
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== External links == * {{cite web|url= http://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/avn/airport_directory/cfd.pdf |title=Coulter Field (CFD) }} at Texas DOT Airport Directory * {{FAA-procedures|CFD}} * {{US-airport-minor|CFD|CFD}} {{Bryan, Texas}}
Category:Airports in Texas Category:Buildings and structures in Brazos County, Texas Category:Transportation in Brazos County, Texas Category:Bryan, Texas