Roscoe Turner Airport
| Roscoe Turner Airport | |||||||||||
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| IATA: CRX – ICAO: KCRX – FAA LID: CRX | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | City of Corinth - Alcorn County | ||||||||||
| Serves | Corinth, Mississippi | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 425 ft / 130 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°54′54″N 088°36′13″W / 34.91500°N 88.60361°W | ||||||||||
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Roscoe Turner Airport (IATA: CRX, ICAO: KCRX, FAA LID: CRX) is a public-use airport located four nautical miles (7 km) southwest of the central business district of Corinth, a city in Alcorn County, Mississippi, United States. It is owned by the City of Corinth and Alcorn County.[1] This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[2]
Facilities and aircraft
Roscoe Turner Airport covers an area of 542 acres (219 ha) at an elevation of 425 feet (130 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 18/36 with an asphalt surface measuring 6,500 by 100 feet (1,981 x 30 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending October 29, 2009, the airport had 16,400 aircraft operations, an average of 44 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% military. At that time there were 16 aircraft based at this airport: 62.5% single-engine, 25% multi-engine and 12.5% ultralight.[1]
Accidents and incidents
- On December 24, 2015 a single engine plane, registered to North Mississippi Pulmonology Clinic in Booneville crashed onto County Road 504 just before 10:30am. Four people were on board, one was flown to a hospital in Memphis and the other three were sent to a local hospital in Corinth for observation. [3]
References
- 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for CRX (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 29 July 2010.
- ↑ National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013: Appendix A: Part 3 (PDF, 1.28 MB). Federal Aviation Administration. Updated 15 October 2008.
- ↑ http://www.wtva.com/news/Plane_crash_reported_in_Alcorn_County_.html
External links
- Aerial image as of 17 February 1996 from USGS The National Map
- FAA Terminal Procedures for CRX, effective December 8, 2016
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for CRX
- AirNav airport information for CRX
- ASN accident history for CRX
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for CRX