Port Meadville Airport

Port Meadville Airport
IATA: MEJ – ICAO: KGKJ – FAA LID: GKJ
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Crawford County Regional Airport Authority
Serves Meadville, Pennsylvania
Elevation AMSL 1,399 ft / 426 m
Coordinates 41°37′36″N 080°12′53″W / 41.62667°N 80.21472°W / 41.62667; -80.21472
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
7/25 5,001 1,524 Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Aircraft operations 13,220
Based aircraft 27

Port Meadville Airport (IATA: MEJ, ICAO: KGKJ, FAA LID: GKJ) is a public use airport located three nautical miles (3.5 mi, 5.6 km) west of the central business district of Meadville, in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States.[1] It is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[2]

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned GKJ by the FAA and MEJ by the IATA.[3]

Facilities and aircraft

Port Meadville Airport covers an area of 250 acres (100 ha) at an elevation of 1,399 feet (426 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 7/25 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,001 by 75 feet (1,524 x 23 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending June 24, 2010, the airport had 13,220 aircraft operations, an average of 36 per day: 98% general aviation, 1% air taxi, and 1% military. At that time there were 27 aircraft based at this airport: 74% single-engine, 15% multi-engine and 11% jet.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for GKJ (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 30 June 2011.
  2. ↑ National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015: Appendix A (PDF, 2.03 MB). Federal Aviation Administration. Updated 4 October 2010.
  3. ↑ "Port Meadville Airport (IATA: MEJ, ICAO: KGKJ, FAA: GKJ)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 26 July 2011.

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