John C. Tune Airport
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| John C. Tune Airport | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| IATA: JWN - ICAO: KJWN | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority | ||
| Serves | Nashville, Tennessee | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 495 ft (151 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 2/20 | 5,500 | 1,676 | Asphalt |
John C. Tune Airport (IATA: JWN, ICAO: KJWN) is a public airport located in the western portion of the city of Nashville in Davidson County, Tennessee, USA. It is operated by the Nashville Airport Authority, located approximately 1 mile (1.5 km) off of Briley Parkway.
Tune Airport, named in honor of a former chairman of the Airport Authority, was planned in the 1970s and built in the early 1980s as a "reliever airport" designed to divert almost all general aviation from Nashville International Airport (Berry Field), leaving the larger facility for flights on scheduled airlines and its service as an Air National Guard base. However, many general aviation users were reluctant to leave NIA and its well-developed infrastructure. Tune Airport was underutilized for years until increasing fees at NIA drove a considerable number of users to Tune in recent years.
John C. Tune Airport has only one runway, but it is long enough to serve small jets such as Lear Jets.
[edit] External links
- Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for KJWN
- ASN Accident history for KJWN
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for KJWN
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