Houston County Airport is a public airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 located in McKinnon, in Houston County, Tennessee

Tennessee

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, United States

United States

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. It is owned by Houston County.

Facilities and aircraft

Houston County Airport covers an area of 84 acres (34 ha) which contains one asphalt

Asphalt

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 paved runway

Runway

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, 8/26, measuring 3,000 x 75 ft (914 x 23 m).

For the 12-month period ending December 27, 1999, the airport had 1,730 aircraft operations: 86% general aviation

General aviation

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and 14% military.