Acadiana Regional Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Iberia Parish (managed by Iberia Parish Airport Authority) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | New Iberia, Louisiana | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 24 ft / 7 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 30°02′16″N 091°53′02″W / 30.03778°N 91.88389°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | iberiabiz.com, acadianaregionalairport.com | ||||||||||||||
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Acadiana Regional Airport (IATA: ARA, ICAO: KARA, FAA LID: ARA) is a public use airport in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is owned by Iberia Parish, managed by the Iberia Parish Airport Authority[2] and is located four nautical miles (7 km) northwest of the central business district of New Iberia, Louisiana near U.S. 90 (future Interstate 49).[1]
From 1960 to 1965 it was operated by the U.S. Navy as Naval Auxiliary Air Station New Iberia as an advanced flight training base with Training Squadron Twenty Seven (VT-27) as the principal assigned unit. VT-27 operated TS-2A Tracker aircraft, modified versions of the Grumman S-2 Tracker with antisubmarine warfare (ASW) equipment removed and converted for use as multi-piston engine trainers. NAAS New Iberia was closed in 1965 when VT-27 was reassigned to NAS Corpus Christi, Texas and control of the airfield reverted to the local civilian government.