Clark Regional Airport

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Coordinates: 38°21′56″N 085°44′18″W / 38.36556, -85.73833

Clark Regional Airport

IATA: none – ICAO: KJVY – FAA: JVY
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Clark County Board Aviation Commission
Serves		Jeffersonville, Indiana
Location		Sellersburg, Indiana
Elevation AMSL		474 ft / 144 m
Website		ClarkRegionalAirport.com
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
18/36	5,500	1,676	Asphalt
14/32	3,899	1,188	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			96,413
Based aircraft			146
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Clark Regional Airport (ICAO: KJVY, FAA LID: JVY), often referred to as the Clark County Airport, is a public airport five miles (8 km) north of the central business district of Jeffersonville, a city in Clark County, Indiana, United States. It is owned by the Clark County Board Aviation Commission.^[1] The airport, located in town of Sellersburg, Indiana, is also seven miles morth of Louisville, Kentucky.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Clark Regional Airport is assigned JVY by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[2]

1 History
2 Facilities and aircraft
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

Clark Regional Airport has been in operation since 1981. It has lost money every year since 2003, when for the first time it was not helped with property taxes. Its 2006 deficit was $50,000.^[3]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Clark Regional Airport covers an area of 420 acres (170 ha) and stands 474 ft. above sea level. It contains two asphalt paved runways: 18/36 measuring 5,500 x 100 ft. (1,676 x 30 m) and 14/32 which measures 3,899 x 75 ft. (1,188 x 23 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending September 8, 2006, the airport had 96,413 aircraft operations, an average of 264 per day: 88% general aviation, 12% air taxi and <1% military. There are 146 aircraft based at this airport: 77% single-engine, 10% multi-engine, 8% helicopter and 5% jet.^[1]