Mountain View Airport is a public airport

Airport

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 located one mile (2 km) southwest of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Mountain View

Mountain View, Missouri

Mountain View is a city in Howell County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,430 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Mountain View is located at ....

, a city in Howell County

Howell County, Missouri

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, Missouri

Missouri

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, United States

United States

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. It is owned by the City of Mountain View.

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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, Mountain View Airport is assigned MNF by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned MNF to the airport

Mana Island Airport

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 on Mana Island

Mana Island

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 in Fiji

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).

Facilities and aircraft

Mountain View Airport covers an area of 120 acres (48.6 ha) which contains one asphalt

Asphalt

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 paved runway

Runway

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 (10/28) measuring 5,005 x 75 ft (1,526 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2005, the airport had 7,330 aircraft operations, an average of 20 per day: 97% general aviation

General aviation

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, 3% air taxi

Air taxi

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and <1% military.