Harbor Springs Municipal Airport , also known as Harbor Springs Airport, is a public airport

Airport

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 located three miles (5 km) east of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Harbor Springs

Harbor Springs, Michigan

Harbor Springs is a city and resort community in Emmet County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,567 at the 2000 census.Harbor Springs is in a sheltered bay on the north shore of the Little Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan. The Little Traverse Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse on...

, a city in Emmet County

Emmet County, Michigan

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, Michigan

Michigan

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, United States

United States

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. This general aviation

General aviation

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 airport has no scheduled commercial flights.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier

Location identifier

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 for the FAA

Federal Aviation Administration

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 and IATA

International Air Transport Association

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, Harbor Springs Municipal Airport is assigned MGN by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned MGN to Baracoa Airport in Magangué

Magangue

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, Colombia

Colombia

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). The airport's ICAO

International Civil Aviation Organization

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 identifier is KMGN.

Facilities and aircraft

Harbor Springs Municipal Airport covers an area of 95 acres (38.4 ha) which contains one asphalt runway

Runway

According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...

 (10/28): 4,157 x 75 ft (1,267 x 23 m).

For 12-month period ending 31 December 2005 the airport had 16,742 aircraft operations (100% general aviation), an average of 45 per day. There are 16 aircraft based at this airport: 94% single engine (15) and 6% multi engine (1).

The airport is staffed daily from 8AM until dusk. It is accessible by road from M-119

M-119 (Michigan highway)

The current highway was designated in 1979, replacing the former route of M-131; the routing has remained unchanged since. This section of highway had been part of M-13 on July 1, 1919, when the state trunkline highway system debuted...

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