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ORDChicago O'Hare International 🇺🇸

ORD / KORD · Chicago, Illinois · USA

Watch item – research candidate
Project type
After incident
Strength of evidence
High
Project intelligenceWhere the project stands in the process, based on the source's own status
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Chicago O'Hare International — EMAS-ersättning väntas efter incident (2008-07-01)

A source-backed watch item, not confirmation of an active project or current physical installation.

Why RWI is watching this: Old enough that treating it as current would be misleading, but RWI has no evidence yet of what happened since. Not discarded - just unconfirmed.

Runways
10C/28C10L/28R10R/28L4L/22R4R/22L9C/27C9L/27R9R/27L
Documented EMAS

3 installations

Installed 2008 · Runway Safe

Runway 22L FAA NASR current presence

Physical location per FAA NASR: runway 4R. NASR cycle 2026-08-06. This record describes runway-end presence, not project status or physical history.

Runway 4R FAA NASR current presence

Physical location per FAA NASR: runway 22L. NASR cycle 2026-08-06. This record describes runway-end presence, not project status or physical history.

EMAS installation (3)
EMASMAX Current physical state
Source
FAA EMAS Incidents and Installations map (verified CSV export)
Federal Aviation Administration · FAA map data
Open source →
Details from the source

FAA map region: Map - Main FAA arresting-system data lists EMAS at multiple ends of runway 4R/22L (04R, 22L); exact end not recorded.

greenEMAS No confirmed runway link Current physical state Confirmed vendor: Runway Safe
Source
Chicago Airports to Install First Ever Sustainable EMAS Solution at Midway and O'Hare
PRWeb · News source · 2015-06-17
Open source →
Details from the source

Separat, nyare post utöver den befintliga generiska FAA-kartposten (id 27, type=EMASMAX) för samma flygplats - den posten sammanfattar bara FAA:s kartdata, denna post bekräftar greenEMAS specifikt. Ej på Gadelius (https://www.gadelius.com/products/license_engineering/greenemas_e.html) lista (som bara nämner Midway), men samma PRWeb-pressmeddelande (https://www.prweb.com/releases/chicago_airports_to_install_first_ever_sustainable_emas_solution_at_midway_and_o_hare/prweb12986556.htm) om Midways greenEMAS-utbyggnad säger att O'Hare fick greenEMAS 'shortly after' - inget exakt installationsår angivet, därför lämnat tomt.

EMASMAX No confirmed runway link Installed 2008
Source
Fact Sheet – Engineered Material Arresting System (EMAS)
FAA · FAA fact sheet · 2016-02-04
Open source →
Details from the source

2 system. Bekraftat av bade 2011- och 2016-Fact Sheet ('Chicago-O'Hare, Chicago, IL, 2, 2008' i bada). Rattar en tidigare gissning om ~2016-2017 installationsar - den gissningen var fel, systemen ar 8 ar aldre.

Location
Chicago O'Hare International: 41.9769, -87.9081

41.9769, -87.9081

Projects and watch items
SignalLifecycleStatusProject typeConfidenceYearSourceScore
Chicago O'Hare International — EMAS-ersättning väntas efter incident (2008-07-01)
A source-backed watch item, not confirmation of an active project or current physical installation.
 Needs research Watch item – research candidateAfter incident
High
– FAA map data 8.0
Intelligence historyReal, source-backed project and funding events in chronological order - never an assumed causal link between entries
2008
EMAS activation Incident
Incident · EMAS engaged
Without a certain event date
Chicago O'Hare International — EMAS-ersättning väntas efter incident (2008-07-01) After incident
Project · Watch item – research candidate Needs research

Neither the event's timing nor the source's date is known.

Evidence 4 sources

Source-backed, but no reviewed claim has been transcribed yet for the sources below - see each one's own link to the original source.

Fact Sheet – Engineered Material Arresting System (EMAS)
FAA · FAA fact sheet · 2016-02-04 · Open source →
Chicago Airports to Install First Ever Sustainable EMAS Solution at Midway and O'Hare
PRWeb · News source · 2015-06-17 · Open source →
Fact Sheet – Engineered Material Arresting Systems (EMAS)
FAA · FAA fact sheet · 2011-03-07 · Open source →
FAA EMAS Incidents and Installations map (verified CSV export)
Federal Aviation Administration · FAA map data · Open source →
Incidents
DateTypeEMAS
2008-07-01 EMAS activation Yes