Sectional chart

Question 1

Controlled airport color

Answer 1

blue

Question 2

Uncontrolled airport color

Answer 2

magenta

Question 3

outer tick marks on airport

Answer 3

Indicates that fuel is available

Question 4

Circle with letter R inside

Answer 4

Indicates restricted or private airport

Question 5

airport w/ runway symbol

Answer 5

Shown when the airport has hard-surface runways 1500-8069 ft long

Question 6

Runway shown w/ no circle on chart

Answer 6

Multiple runways or a runway is longer than 8069 ft long

Question 7

Military airport identification:

Answer 7

Name followed by: “MCAS”, “NAS”, “NAF”, “AFB”, “AAF”, etc.. OR a circle within a circle

Question 8

joint-use military/civilian airport

Answer 8

Circle within a circle w/ tick marks. Large joint-use airports are depicted the same as civil airports

Question 9

Abandoned airport

Answer 9

shown as a magenta circle with an X (if the runway is at least 3000ft and paved)

Question 10

Lighting information

Answer 10

• above the airport symbol - indicates a rotating beacon
  L - indicates that surface lighting is in operation from sunset to sunrise
  *L - surface lighting limitations.
  (ex: runway lights not automatically on overnight/ pilot controlled)

Question 11

Communication services

Answer 11

C: CTAF frequency
*: indicates part-time tower operation
CT: control tower
U: unicom

Question 12

Runway info:

Answer 12

• Length of the longest runway in hundreds of feet
• non-standard traffic pattern runways are preceded w/ RP

Question 13

rotating beacon

Answer 13

-white and green: civilian
-two whites and green: military
-white, yellow, green: heliport