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Class D airport without a tower

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Hi,

  Find the airport KJWN on sectional, please. Looks like JOHN C TUNE airport

do not have any tower. But still class D airspace. Whom I have to call for pattern

operations? VFR departure and inbound? 

Thanks a lot! 

 

 

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  1. Jeff Baum on Aug 29, 2021

    If you zoom in on KJDN you’ll see the airport information block. As is the airport, it is magenta and has a multi com CTAF. So, you are correct – no tower. But the blue segmented ring and the boxed [23] would indicate Class D airspace. Okay, now look about 9:30 to the airport, just outside of the blue ring. There is a note; “Class D effective by NOTAM”. Doing a little research I’ve found that the plan IS to have a control tower at the airport, but the start date was delayed due to a tornado and now Covid. My guess is that the FAA wanted to have the airspace shown on the sectional to get folks aware that a new Class D will be going into effect, date to be determined. The NOTAM will list the effective times and the correct frequency to use. A nice teaching opportunity for why we need to check NOTAMs!

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  2. Mark Kolber on Aug 30, 2021

    As Jeff pointed out, JWN is a Class G airport which becomes Class D periodically by NOTAM. No NOTAM? You just treat us as you would any nontowered airport.

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