Elko Regional Airport

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Coordinates: 40°49′30″N 115°47′30″W / 40.825, -115.79167

Elko Regional Airport J.C. Harris Field
FAA airport diagram
IATA: EKO – ICAO: KEKO – FAA: EKO
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of Elko
Serves		Elko, Nevada
Elevation AMSL		5,140 ft / 1,567 m
Website		www.ci.elko.nv.us/airport/...
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
5/23	7,214	2,199	Asphalt
12/30	2,871	875	Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations			16,520
Based aircraft			69
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Elko Regional Airport (IATA: EKO, ICAO: KEKO, FAA LID: EKO), formerly known as Elko Municipal Airport, is a city-owned public-use airport located one mile (1.6 km) west of the central business district of Elko, a city in Elko County, Nevada, United States.^[1] This airport serves much of northeastern Nevada.

The airport was named J.C. Harris Field in 1975, in honor of Jess C. Harris, a sheriff from Elko who was known as "The Flying Sheriff".^[2]

1 Facilities and aircraft
2 References
3 Airlines and destinations
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Elko Regional Airport covers an area of 700 acres (283 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 5/23 measuring 7,214 x 150 ft. (2,199 x 46 m) and 12/30 measuring 2,871 x 60 ft. (875 x 18 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2007, the airport had 16,520 aircraft operations, an average of 45 per day: 73% general aviation, 27% air taxi and <1% military. At that time there were 69 aircraft based at this airport: 77% single-engine, 10% multi-engine, 6% jet and 7% helicopter.^[1]