Leg 1 KHPN - Westchester County (US) to KPHL Philadelphia (US)

KHPN - Airport Info

ICAO code: KHPN
Airport name: Westchester County Airport
Location: White Plains, New York, USA

Useful information

Airport elevation: 439’
Time zone: ET (GMT -5)
Lighted runways : Yes
Maximum runway lenght : 6548’ 16/34
Runway surface : asphalt

Instrument approach (ILS, LOC, LDA, and SDF):

Runway 16: ILS/DME 109.70 - 162º
Runway 34: ILS/DME 109.70 - 342º

Westchester County Info

Westchester County covers an area just over 457 square miles. Its geographical setting is a favorable one, with Long Island Sound on the east and the Hudson River on the west. The terrain is largely rolling hills, intersected by three main streams--the Croton, Bronx, and Saw Mill rivers. KPHN1 The county is one of the most heavily forested in New York State. It has retained much of its rural character while adopting the urban and suburban lifestyles dictated by its proximity to New York.

The Indians of Westchester were members of the Algonkian tribes. They were generally more peace loving than the fierce Iroquois, who lived in northern New York. They lived on the bounty of their land. They hunted and fished, and grew crops of corn, beans, and pumpkins. Following the seasons, they spent the summers on the shores of the Long Island Sound and Hudson River, and moved to inland homesites during the colder months. They gathered oysters and other shellfish in summer to be smoked and dried to add to their winter food supply.

KPHN2 The first permanent white settlers of Westchester County were Dutch, who, in the middle decades of the seventeenth century, began to occupy the Hudson Valley between their earlier settlements in New Amsterdam (now New York) and Fort Orange (now Albany).

Westchester is now a dynamic county. In the 1960s and 1970s many factors combined to influence the corporate giants to move their vast operations to Westchester. They had the opportunity to build their own facilities, an available work force, and the interstate road system; Westchester County Airport made the county easily accessible to the rest of the northeast. Also, New York City had become less attractive as rents and taxes rose and the environment decayed.

While there are many new buildings being built in Westchester today, there is a significant movement to retain fine old ones, and many landmarks have been renovated to be used as schools, colleges, and business offices. The Westchester Preservation League has worked with both individuals and municipalities to create historic districts and to save worthy buildings.

There is now around 1 000 000 of peoples who live in the Westchester county.

KPHL - Airport Info

ICAO code: KPHL
Airport name: Philadelphia International
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA

Useful information

Airport elevation: 36’
Time zone: ET (GMT -5)
Lighted runways : Yes
Maximum runway length : 10506'
Runway surface : asphalt

Instrument approach (ILS, LOC, LDA, and SDF):

Runway 9L: ILS/DME 108.95 - 085º
Runway 9R: ILS/DME 109.30 - 087º
Runway 27L: ILS/DME 109.30 - 265º
Runway 27R: ILS/DME 108.95 - 266º
Runway 17: ILS 108.75 - 169º
Runway 26: ILS/DME 111.55 - 263º

Philadelphia Info

The original capital of the nation, PHILADELPHIA was laid out by William Penn Jr. in 1682, on a grid system that was to provide the pattern for most American cities. KPHL1 KPHL2 It was envisaged as a "greene countrie towne" and today, for all its historical and cultural significance, it still manages to retain a certain quaintness. Just a few blocks away from the noise, crowds, heat and dust of downtown, shady cobbled alleys stand lined with red-brick colonial houses, while the peace and quiet of huge Fairmount Park make it easy to forget you're in a major metropolis.

Settled by Quakers, Philadelphia prospered swiftly on the back of trade and commerce, and by the 1750s had become the second largest city in the British Empire. Economic power fueled strong revolutionary feeling, and the city was the capital during the War of Independence (except for nine months under British occupation in 1777–78). It also served as the US capital until 1800, while Washington, DC was being built. The Declaration of Independence was written, signed and first publicly read here in 1776, as was the US Constitution ten years later. Philadelphia was also a hotbed of new ideas in the arts and sciences, as epitomized by the scientist, philosopher, statesman, inventor and printer Benjamin Franklin.

Philadelphia, which translated from Greek means "City of Brotherly Love," is in fact one of the most ethnically mixed US cities, with substantial communities of Italians, Irish, Eastern Europeans and Asians living side by side among the majority black population. Many of the city's black residents are descendants of the migrants who flocked here after the Civil War when, like Chicago, Philadelphia was seen as a place of tolerance and liberalism.