Albany Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport

Airport

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 located one nautical mile (1.85 km) north of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Albany

Albany, Missouri

Albany is a city in Gentry County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,937 at the 2000 census.- Geography :Albany is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land...

, a city in Gentry County

Gentry County, Missouri

As of the census of 2000, there were 6,861 people, 2,747 households, and 1,884 families residing in the county. The population density was 14 people per square mile . There were 3,214 housing units at an average density of 6 per square mile...

, Missouri

Missouri

Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

, United States

United States

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Facilities and aircraft

Albany Municipal Airport covers an area of 120 acres (48.6 ha) at an elevation

Elevation

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 of 886 feet (270 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway

Runway

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 designated 1/19 with a concrete

Concrete

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 surface measuring 3,300 by 50 feet (1,006 x 15 m).

For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2009, the airport had 3,280 aircraft operations, an average of 273 per month: 99.7% general aviation

General aviation

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 and 0.3% military

Military aviation

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At that time there were 8 aircraft based at this airport: 87.5% single-engine

Aircraft engine

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 and 12.5% multi-engine.

External links

at Missouri DOT airport directory

• Aerial image as of 24 February 1996 from USGS The National Map