Download or read book Tower Airport Statistics Handbook, Calendar Year 1978 written by Alan Weiner and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full year 1978 daily aircraft operations were obtained from 429 towered airports, 427 of which are operated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The purpose of this report was to use a package of computer programs to perform statistical analyses on six user types of daily operations as reported on FAA Form 7230-1, Airport Traffic Record. The output of the computer programs displays specific statistics in tabular and graphical format. The tabular statistics include means, standard deviations and peak occurrences computed for individual airports as well as varoius multiple airport groupings. Frequency distribution histograms and time curves are presented in a graphical format for the entire nationwide set of FAA towered airports. (Author).