Hammond Northshore Regional Airport
IATA: none ICAO: KHDC FAA LID: HDC
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Hammond
Serves	Hammond, Louisiana
Elevation AMSL	46 ft / 14 m
Coordinates	30°31′18″N 090°25′06″W / 30.52167°N 90.41833°W / 30.52167; -90.41833
Website	www.hammond.org/...
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 13/31 6,502 1,982 Asphalt/concrete 18/36 5,001 1,524 Concrete
Statistics (2021)
Aircraft operations 86,500 Based aircraft 91
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Hammond Northshore Regional Airport (ICAO: KHDC, FAA LID: HDC) is a city-owned, public-use, joint civil-military, general aviation airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northeast of the central business district of Hammond, a city in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States.^[1] The airport was previously an uncontrolled facility utilizing VHF-band UNICOM as a Common Traffic Advisory Frequency (CTAF). As a result of the relocation of Army National Guard flight operations from Lakefront Airport to Hammond, a new control tower was constructed at the airport. This tower, staffed by military air traffic controllers from the Air Operations Department of the Louisiana Army National Guard's Army Aviation Support Facility #1 at the airport, became operational on 15 December 2014.^[2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned HDC by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[3]

Facilities and aircraft

Hammond Northshore Regional Airport covers an area of 920 acres (370 ha) at an elevation of 46 feet (14 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 13/31 is 6,502 by 100 feet (1,982 x 30 m) with an asphalt/concrete surface; 18/36 is 5,001 by 150 feet (1,524 x 46 m) with a concrete surface.^[1]

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2021, the airport had 86,500 aircraft operations, an average of 237 per day: 75% general aviation, 23% military and 2% air taxi. At that time there were 91 aircraft based at this airport: 57 single-engine, 20 military, 2 multi-engine, 10 jet and 2 helicopter.^[1]

The Louisiana Army National Guard maintains a 56-acre (230,000 m²) campus (constructed in 2008-2009) at the Hammond airport, which is home to the 1/244th Air Assault Helicopter Battalion, which operates UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, and the 204th Theater Air Operation Command.^[4] The Louisiana Air National Guard also maintains a non-flying unit, the 236th Combat Communications Squadron (236 CCS), at the airport.

History

During World War II, part of the airport served as a detention camp for prisoners of war from Germany.