New Castle County, Delaware state by area. It has more people than the other two counties, Kent and Sussex, combined. It is also the most economically developed of the three. Matt Meyer was elected New Castle County Executive in 2016. New Castle County is home to two minor league sports teams: the Wilmington Blue Rocks (baseball) and the Delaware Blue Coats (basketball) which also plays in Wilmington. It also has a professional auto racing track in New Castle known as Airport Speedway, which races on Saturday nights throughout the summer. The first permanent European settlement on Delaware soil was Fort Christina, resulting from Peter
New Castle-Henry County Municipal Airport New Castle-Henry County Municipal Airport New Castle-Henry County Municipal Airport is a public use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) southeast of the central business district of New Castle, a city in Henry County, Indiana, United States. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a "general aviation" facility. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned UWL by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA. New Castle-Henry County Municipal Airport covers an area of