The pilot of a small aircraft entered controlled airspace around an airport with a tower that had on...

Attributes
ACN	1320206
Time
Date	201512
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	UAO.Tower
State Reference	OR
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Small Aircraft High Wing 1 Eng Fixed Gear
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 16 Flight Crew Total 1362 Flight Crew Type 71
Events
Anomaly	Airspace Violation All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

During a VFR personal flight I entered into the kuao class D airspace inadvertently without contacting the tower. The tower at kuao is newly built and I did not realize it was operational. Prior to entering into the airspace I had consulted a current sectional chart to gather the frequency for the kuao airport and saw the CTAF of 122.7 in the block of information and the airport symbol shown in magenta. I took this to indicate that the tower was still not operational (other tower controlled airports show the airport in blue and list the ct frequency in the information block).the tower controller contacted me on the CTAF and instructed me to switch to the ct frequency (120.35). I did so immediately and was cleared into the class D airspace. The tower controller took the opportunity to inform me about the new tower and handled the situation very gracefully. There was no other traffic operating at kuao at the time.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: The pilot of a small aircraft entered controlled airspace around an airport with a tower that had only recently become operational.

Narrative: During a VFR personal flight I entered into the KUAO class D airspace inadvertently without contacting the tower. The tower at KUAO is newly built and I did not realize it was operational. Prior to entering into the airspace I had consulted a current sectional chart to gather the frequency for the KUAO airport and saw the CTAF of 122.7 in the block of information and the airport symbol shown in magenta. I took this to indicate that the tower was still not operational (other tower controlled airports show the airport in blue and list the CT frequency in the information block).The tower controller contacted me on the CTAF and instructed me to switch to the CT frequency (120.35). I did so immediately and was cleared into the class D airspace. The tower controller took the opportunity to inform me about the new tower and handled the situation very gracefully. There was no other traffic operating at KUAO at the time.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.