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For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2022, the airport had 13,000 aircraft operations, an average of 14 per day: 92% general aviation, 6% air taxi and 2% military. At that time there were 21 aircraft based at this airport: 17 single-engine, 3 multi-engine, 1 helicopter and 0 jet. [1]
This is a list of airports in Tennessee (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Memphis International Airport (IATA: MEM, ICAO: KMEM, FAA LID: MEM) is a civil-military airport located 7 mi (11 km) southeast of downtown Memphis in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. It is the primary international airport serving Memphis. It covers 3,900 acres (1,600 ha) and has four runways. [2] [3]
A flight information display system (FIDS) is a computer system used in airports to display flight information to passengers, in which a computer system controls mechanical or electronic display boards or monitors in order to display arriving and departing flight information in real-time. The displays are located inside or around an airport ...
Tri-Cities Airport (IATA: TRI, ICAO: KTRI, FAA LID: TRI) (also known as Tri-Cities Airport, TN/VA), is in Blountville, Tennessee, United States. It serves the Tri-Cities area ( Johnson City, Tennessee ; Kingsport, Tennessee ; Bristol, Tennessee - Virginia ) of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.
Winchester Regional Airport covers 375 acres (152 ha) at an elevation of 726 feet (221 m). Its one runway, 14/32, is 5,500 by 100 feet (1,676 x 30 m); [ 1 ] the runway supports instrument landing approaches, with the localizer on the northwest side of the airport.
In the 1970s, the airport name was changed to McKellar–Sipes Regional Airport to honor Major Robert Ray "Buster" Sipes, a United States Air Force test pilot from Jackson, who was killed in 1969 when his RF-101 Voodoo jet fighter crashed after takeoff from RAF Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, England. A plaque is located in the Church of St. Peter ...
The primary responsibility of Memphis Center is sequencing and separation of over-flights, arrivals, and departures in order to provide safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of aircraft filed under instrument flight rules (IFR). Memphis Center is the 9th busiest ARTCC in the United States.