Import FAA 18B Shapefiles (Aviation)—ArcGIS Pro

Available with Aviation Airports license.

Summary

Imports one or more FAA Advisory Circular 150/5300-18B compliant shapefiles into a geodatabase that contains the ArcGIS Aviation Airports schema.

Usage

The output workspace must contain the 18B data model.
Imported shapefiles must contain the schema defined in Appendix D of AC 150/5300-18B and be z-enabled.
Duplicate features are reported as warnings. More detailed information on which features are duplicates can be found in the Results window.
The import process does not stop if errors, such as a missing field, are encountered. The tool stops the import process for the shapefile with an error and continues to import the rest of the shapefiles.

Syntax

ImportFAA18BShapefiles(in_features, airports_workspace)

Parameter	Explanation	Data Type
in_features [in_features,...]	The folder containing the FAA 18B shapefiles to be imported into a geodatabase. All the shapefiles in the folder will be imported by default. To indicate specific shapefiles to be imported, list them in the in_features parameter.	Shapefile
airports_workspace	The geodatabase into which the shapefiles will be imported.	Workspace

Derived Output

Name	Explanation	Data Type
out_workspace	The updated feature class containing the generated obstruction identification surfaces.	Workspace

Code sample

ImportFAA18BShapefiles example (stand-alone script)

The following Python window script demonstrates how to use the ImportFAA18BShapefiles tool.

# Name: ImportFAA18BShapefile.py
# Description: Imports shapefiles into a geodatabase
#              that contains the ArcGIS Aviation Airports schema
# Author: Esri
# Date: August 2018

# Import arcpy module
import arcpy

# Check out Aviation license
arcpy.CheckOutExtension("Airports")

# Define inputs
airports_gdb = r'c:\data\airports.gdb'
shapefile1 = r'c:\data\AircraftGateStand.shp'
shapefile2 = r'c:\data\AircraftNonMovementArea.shp'
shapefile3 = r'c:\data\AirOperationsArea.shp'

# Import the shapefiles
arcpy.ImportFAA18BShapefile_aviation([shapefile1, shapefile2, shapefile3], airports_gdb)

# Check in license
arcpy.CheckInExtension("Airports")

Environments

Current Workspace

Licensing information

Basic: No
Standard: Requires Airports
Advanced: Requires Airports