Let's take a typical winter day at LaGuardia Airport with 30 knots of wind blowing snow and a runway designed for Lindbergh-era propeller planes.

The south field consists of the two longer runways, 07/25 and 14/32, designed for jet airliners.

In 2012 construction of a site for flight test operations began, including new runway specifically designed to accommodate flight testing of the Sukhoi T-50 stealth fighter currently under development.

This facility has a runway designed for use by STOL (short take-off and landing) aircraft.

Construction at the 3,800-acre site, which includes a 9,600-foot runway designed to handle all military and commercial aircraft, began a year ago and is set for completion in December.

In 1977, construction of the second runway, designed for admissions and IL-86, IL-76, IL-62, Tu-154, was commissioned in 1982.

It has one asphalt paved runway designed 2/20 which measures 5,500 by 100 feet (1,676 x 30 m).

The station formally opened on 21 August 1942 with three new concrete runways designed for both fighter and bomber aircraft.

Barter Island LRRS Airport has one runway designed 7/25 with a gravel surface measuring 4,820 by 100 feet (1,469 x 30 m).

The Pentagon is building a new 11,800-foot runway there by next March to replace a Soviet-built runway designed for fighter jets that was cracking under the weight of much heavier American cargo planes.