Coffman Associates

Coffman Associates is an airport planning firm. The site says its work is focused only on airport planning and related environmental and noise studies. The firm has joined the Pape-Dawson family. Its offices are in Overland Park, Kansas and Scottsdale, Arizona, United States.

The site says the firm has completed more than 1,700 airport planning assignments. The about page gives a different count, saying more than 1,200 assignments since 1979. These include nearly 600 master plans, more than 250 environmental studies and more than 150 noise and land use studies. The site says 70 percent of its projects are with repeat clients.

The firm's services include airport master plans, environmental planning, noise and land use studies, site selections and project-specific studies. The site lists FAA and state grant applications, FAA form 7460 and 7480 filings, capital improvement plans and economic benefit analysis. It says the firm helps airports with public outreach.

The firm works with commercial service airports and general aviation airports. The site says 29 percent of commercial service airports have selected the firm. It also says 46 percent of its employees have been with the firm for at least 15 years.

The site lists members of the planning team. Dave Fitz is a senior vice president who leads noise and airport land use compatibility work. He has prepared more than 100 airport noise and land use plans. Mike Dmyterko works mainly on airport master planning and Part 150 studies.

The firm has worked with the FAA Airports-GIS program since it began. The site says the firm built the second electronic airport layout plan ever approved. It also builds web-based tools for airports. The Kansas City office phone is (816) 524-3500 and the Phoenix office phone is (602) 993-6999.

The site says Coffman Associates is committed to high quality airport planning, with projects completed on time and on budget. It says the firm is not an engineering firm and focuses only on planning. The site says this gives the firm a more objective view of a project. The site says the firm has worked on airport planning since 1979.