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wademercer: Time for these to retire. Feel sad that a few cachers have littered the Dfw area with thousands of poorly rated caches... all to appease a few loopers... not sure how you can brag about a hundred or more loops when most are from falsely rated caches! Also frustrating that the dfw cachers aren’t discouraging this bad behavior. I feel the north Texas geocaching association should be spearheading a movement to encourage cachers to rate their caches appropriately. To have some pride in the cachers and caches they represent. Instead, they actively participate in their Denton overrated events, and enjoy another false loop. They should be discouraging inaccurate cache ratings. Txga leadership should be modeling the best geocaching behavior for others to follow. Step up.

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Hidden : 12/6/2011
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates. Solve the puzzle to
find it!
The cache can be found at:
N 32 XX.X0X
w 096 XX.XXX

Addison Airport (IATA: ADS, ICAO: KADS, FAA LID: ADS) is a
public airport located in the town of Addison, an incorporated city
in Dallas County, Texas, United States. It is nine miles (14 km)
north of the central business district of the city of Dallas.

The airport was established in 1954 and was purchased by the town
of Addison in 1976. It is the busiest general aviation airport in
Texas and among the five busiest in the United States. The airport
is also home to the Cavanaugh Flight Museum.

The Addison Airport Toll Tunnel allows east-west traffic to cross
the airport property under the runway and was completed in
1999.

Facilities and aircraft

Addison Airport covers an area of 368 acres (149 ha) and contains
one runway designated 15/33 with a 7,202-by-100-foot (2,195 × 30 m)
concrete pavement. For the 12-month period ending December 31,
2006, the airport had 133,557 aircraft operations, an average of
365 per day: 88% general aviation, 12% air taxi,

The airport has the headquarters of Martinaire.

Accidents and incidents

The following involved flights departing or arriving at the
airport:

July 19, 1986: All 4 occupants of a Cessna 421, registration number
N6VR, were killed when the aircraft suffered an apparent right-hand
engine failure, rolled over, and dived into a vacant lot
immediately after takeoff from Addison Airport.[4] The post-crash
investigation revealed that the right-hand engine did not show any
obvious signs of failure and its controls were not set to deliver
full takeoff power. The crash was attributed to incorrect engine
control operation; the pilot had recently purchased the Cessna 421
but had not been formally trained to fly it, and most of his
twin-engined experience had been in an airplane with engine
controls that operated in the reverse direction of those in the
Cessna.

June 20, 1992: The pilot of a Piper J3C-65 Cub, registration number
N3128M, reported trouble and attempted to return to Addison Airport
soon after taking off to test a newly-installed engine. Wile
turning to line up with the runway, the airplane suddenly lost
altitude, rolled upside down, and crashed in the middle of nearby
Beltway Drive, killin the pilot and his passenger. The crashing was
attributed to breakage of them left-hand elevator control tube due
to corrosion.

January 1, 2004: The pilot and passenger of a Bellanca 17-30A Super
Viking, registration number N4104B, died when the aircraft struck
houses in the Preston Hollow neighborhood of nearby Dallas, Texas
after departing from Addison Airport bound for Amarillo, Texas. An
intense post-crash fired destroyed two houses and the remains of the
Bellanca, but an elderly resident of one house escaped injury after
being dragged out of the burning structure by his caregive, who
was also unhurt. The crash was attributed to spatial disorientation
in densely clouded IFR conditions; the pilot had report a partial
instrument panel failure, after which radar data indicated that he
wase making left turns insted of right turns as directed by air
traffic controllers.

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