Salt Lake City ARTCC

Salt Lake City ARTCC (1962-Present) - One of 20 FAA Air Route Traffic Control Centers in the lower 48 United States. Established in 1962 near Salt Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. Assigned an FAA ID of ZLC. Active FAA Air Traffic Control Center. Also known as Salt Lake Center. Salt Lake City ARTCC. History The Salt Lake Center is located at 2150 W 700 N, Salt Lake City adjacent to the Salt Lake City International Airport. The present facility was Commissioned in 1962. The Salt Lake City Center (ZLC) covers part of the Western Service Area. Initially, the 20 ARTCCs in the lower 48 States were equipped with IBM 9020 computers to automate some of the ARTCC functions. In 1988 the IBM 3083 computer system known as "Host" replaced the old IBM 9020s in these ARTCCs. On 14 Jun 2012, the FAA decommissioned the 4-decades-old En Route Host computer system at the Seattle and Salt Lake City ARTCCs and replaced the system with the new En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) system. As of 27 Mar 2015, all 20 of the lower 48 United States ARTCCs had converted to the ERAM system as had the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. ERAM technology is the heart of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) and the pulse of the National Airspace System (NAS), helping to advance the transition from a ground-based system of air traffic control to a satellite-based system of traffic management. ERAM can process data from 64 radars versus the 24 radar processing with the legacy HOST system. Operation The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) system of 24 FAA Area Control Centers, 20 in the lower 48 United States, one in Alaska, one in Hawaii, one in Puerto Rica and one in Guam. The system operates with radar data provided by FAA radar sites, DoD radar sites, and other federal agency radar sites. These centers provide en route and oceanic services to private, commercial, and military aircraft overflying their respective control areas. As aircraft enter or exit from one control area to the next, responsibility for the aircraft is transferred to the gaining ARTCC. Voice communication between aircraft and the ARTCCs is supported by a network of ground-air radio sites often co-located with the radar sites. The gathering of radar, beacon and other sensor data are now largely automated and continuous, but the actions necessary to control the airspace are conversational and require some 14,000 FAA air traffic controllers talking directly to pilots in the air and on the ground at terminals. This number does not include military air traffic controllers. Salt Lake City ARTCC (ZLC) Total Operations (aircraft handled) 1,394,441 FY2016 Total Operations (aircraft handled) 1,429,054 FY2017 Operations Rank 19/24 FY2017 En-Route Air Traffic Controllers 165 a/o 17 Sep 2016 Airspace Area (sq miles) 416,000 Salt Lake City ARTCC Controlled Radar Sites (edit list) FAA JSS NORAD Site St_ Equip_ Status Origin GPS ARTCC Notes ZBAM Z-214 Battle Mountain NV CARSR ATCBI-6 Active 40.40306, -116.86778 ZLC ZCDC Z-216 Cedar City UT CARSR Mode S Active 37.59306, -112.86361 ZLC * ZSLC Z-213 Francis Peak (Salt Lake City) UT CARSR Mode S Active 41.03278, -111.83833 ZLC * ZGTF J-77A Bootlegger Ridge MT ARSR-4 ATCBI-6M Active 47.61361, -111.29028 ZLC * ZQLS J-78 Z-179 Lakeside MT ARSR-4 ATCBI-6M Active Kalispell AFS 48.01139, -114.36500 ZLC * ZRKS Z-218 Rock Springs WY CARSR Mode S Active 41.43472, -109.11750 ZLC ZQCK Z-223 Boise ID CARSR Mode S Active 44.44250, -116.13694 ZLC ZQSI Z-224 Lovell WY CARSR Mode S Active 44.81694, -107.90222 ZLC * ZQVA Z-225 Z-225 Ashton ID CARSR Mode S Active 44.56250, -111.44472 ZLC * ZTPH Z-164 Tonopah NV BOS Mode S Active Tonopah AFS 38.05167, -117.22556 ZLC * Not on 2016 List Notes: From the 23 Dec 2016 FAA "Site listing of Legacy Radars" that identified this ARTCC as the Overlying Enroute Center. Current Status Active FAA facility in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. {"selectable":false,"height":"-500","width":"-500"} Location: 2150 W 700 N, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. Maps & Images Lat: 40.78607 Long: -111.95232 Multi Maps from ACME Maps from Bing Maps from Google Elevation: 4,226' GPS Locations: 40.78607, -111.95232 Salt Lake City ARTCC See Also: FAA_Air Route Traffic Control Centers JSS and FAA Radar Sites Sources: ATC History Administrator's Fact Book, Federal Aviation Administration, May 2019, archived 4 Jun 2019, Pdf 2017-2026 Air Traffic Controller Workforce Plan, Federal Aviation Administration, 2017, archived 5 Jun 2019, Pdf Air Traffic by the Numbers, Federal Aviation Administration, 2018, archived 5 Jun 2019, Pdf Computer system to Improve air safety unveiled in LA, The Napa Valley Register (Napa, California), 11 Mar 1988, page 20, archived 7 Jul 2019. Links: Bad Links Garden+City,+UT+(FAA+site) Salt Lake City FAA Radar Site] Wikipedia - Joint Surveillance System FAA Fact Sheet – En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) Visited: 12 Oct 2018