McCreary County Airport is a public airport

Airport

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 located in unincorporated

Unincorporated area

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 McCreary County

McCreary County, Kentucky

McCreary County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of 2000, the population was 17,080. Its county seat is Whitley City. The county is named for James B. McCreary, a Confederate war hero and Governor of Kentucky from 1875 to 1879. It is the only Kentucky county to not have a...

, Kentucky

Kentucky

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, USA

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, 3 miles (4.8 km) three miles northeast of the central business district

Central business district

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 (CBD) of Pine Knot

Pine Knot, Kentucky

Pine Knot is a census-designated place in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 1,680 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Pine Knot is located at ....

. It is a very small, publicly owned public-use general aviation

General aviation

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 airport. The airport lies adjacent to United States Penitentiary, McCreary

United States Penitentiary, McCreary

The United States Penitentiary McCreary is a high security federal prison in the United States, located in unincorporated McCreary County, Kentucky, near Pine Knot....

 and has one unattended hangar containing several ultralight aircraft. Its elevation is 1370 MSL and it has one well-maintained asphalt runway, 4/22.

In 2003, Senator Jim Bunning

Jim Bunning

James Paul David "Jim" Bunning is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher and politician.During a 17-year baseball career, he pitched from 1955 to 1971, most notably with the Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Phillies. When he retired, he had the second-highest total of career...

announced that federal funding was being extended to McCreary County Airport. Plans are in development to extend the runway and build additional hangar space.