Tampa Airport (TPA) is in Tampa city limits.
The proximity of the airport to the putative downtown contributes to it not seeming like one. Because of the flight paths for the airport, San Jose buildings have height restrictions. About 300 feet, IIRC, in the central business district where the tallest buildings are.
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OK, you posted again while I was posting this. I might as well look it up. Wiki says:
Miami, FL, airport is pretty close to downtown Miami. My commute used to take me past it, and there always seemed to be rubberneckers watching the planes land while they drove. Although one day I was on that road as the Concorde was coming in for a landing, and I slowed way down to watch it.
Blatchford Field (formerly Edmonton Municipal) Is located right next to downtown Edmonton. They keep trying to get rid of it, and redevelop the land, but it’s still operational. It’s restricted to small charters, 10 or less passengers, travelling North.
BTW, somebody upthread mentioned Phoenix, which does, indeed, have an airport very close to downtown. San Diego was mentioned as well. Apparently, these cities also have FAA imposed height restrictions for their downtown buildings. 500 feet - not as severe as San Jose, but enough to put a crimp in some developer’s plans, I suppose.
Some airports outside of their cities are still owned and operated by the city. They may even be in other cities and counties, but the larger city may have purchased the land because they didn’t have room to put an airport downtown.
I dunno about city limits, but last time I was in Louisville (in the UofL campus area), planes were coming in ungodly low on approach - you could almost count the rivets on their bellies.
The way I heard it, Louisville built their airport and then just kept sprawling around it.
El Paso, TX is another. Albuquerque, NM is close with the development to the south, though the Air Force base and Isleta Pueblo probably keep it from really qualifying. Albany is technically in the town of Colonie in Albany county, but I’ve never been able to believe that these are really all different cities. (I don’t know why the Shakers decide to settle so close to the airport.)
The old airport at Hong Kong?
Greater London isn’t a city. It’s equivalent to a county, although I can’t remember if it formally counts as one.
It is part of “Sydney” in the informal sense, though. I used to know someone who worked there (the airport); we used to cut through it as a shortcut!
Gibraltar’s airport is also within the city limits.
Honolulu’s airport is within the city limits. Like Anchorage, Honolulu is pretty big: all of Oahu and the northwestern islands are the City & County of Honolulu.
Still, the airport still falls in the Honolulu census area (Salt Lake to Koko Head).
I wonder if Tokyo’s Narita would count for the farthest from the city?
Joge Newbury airport is in Buenos Aires, it is mostly used for domestic flights. Ezezia is the international airport and is in the Province of Bs As rather than in the bounds of the Capital Federal
gibraltar has the closest airport to the city center, according to the guiness.
Actually there is no Alexandria county, only the city of Alexandria (which is in Fairfax county). It has the “independent” label because it has its own jurisdiction. The same thing applies to the City of Fairfax. Say you were arrested in the jurisdiction of the City of Fairfax you would appear in city court. However, you could literally be across the street and outside the City limits and (if arrested) would have to go to county court. Funny thing is both courts are under the same roof. (I’m not trying to be nitpicky with you…)
That’s the case with St. Louis. The airport is owned and operated by the city, the city police have jurisdiction, the expenses and revenues accrue to the city, etc., but the land the airport sits on is in the county.
On the other hand, Jefferson City, MO built its airport directly across the river from the state capitol. Then they annexed the land and made it part of the city, even though it’s in a different county.
The Island airport in Toronto, YTZ, is downtown. Pearson Airport, YYZ, is mostly in the neighbouring city of Mississauga, but part of the airport property does spill across the city boundary. The former Downsview air base, whose runway is still used by the Bombardier aircraft plant, is within Toronto city limits. (Downsview also has an IATA airport code, YZD.)
Moisant Airport – New Orleans International (yeah, I know they call it Louis Armstrong Int’l now) is in the City of New Orleans. However, it’s not actually connected to the New Orleans city limits. It’s located entirely within the incorporated City of Kenner, and entirely within Jefferson Parish (we call counties parishes in Louisiana–City of New Orleans is Orleans Parish).
I’m pretty sure the taxis that service the airport are New Orleans city licensed cabs, and you pay City of New Orleans sales tax if you buy something at the airport.
Phoenix Sky Harbor airport is in the Phoenix city limits.
The Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) airport is not actually within the city limits of Minneapolis, but just next to them. It’s actually in an unincorporated area of the county, the old military Fort Snelling.
Over in St. Paul, they have a small airport within the city limits, actually just a few blocks south of downtown.
Detroit City airport, while not used as a passenger airport any more, is within the city limits of Detroit. The main airport, Detroit Metro, is not nearly.