Henderson Executive Airport

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Coordinates: 35°58′22″N 115°08′04″W / 35.97278, -115.13444

Henderson Executive Airport
FAA airport diagram
IATA: HSH – ICAO: KHND – FAA: HND
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Clark County, Nevada
Operator		Clark County Department of Aviation
Serves		Las Vegas, Nevada
Elevation AMSL		2,492 ft / 760 m
Website		www.hnd.aero
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
17R/35L	6,500	1,982	Asphalt
17L/35R	5,000	1,524	Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations			98,656
Based aircraft			310
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Henderson Executive Airport (IATA: HSH, ICAO: KHND, FAA LID: HND) is a public airport located 11 miles (18 km) south of the central business district of Las Vegas, in Clark County, Nevada, United States. The airport is owned by Clark County^[1] and operated by the Clark County Department of Aviation.

Originally known as Sky Harbor Airport, the airport was renamed in 1996 when it was purchased by Clark County to be used as a reliever airport for McCarran International Airport.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Henderson Executive Airport is assigned HND^[1] by the FAA and HSH^[2] by the IATA (which assigned HND to Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan^[3]). The airport's ICAO identifier is KHND^[2]^[4]^[5].

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Henderson Executive Airport covers an area of 760 acres (308 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 17R/35L measuring 6,500 x 100 ft. (1,982 x 30 m) and 17L/35R measuring 5,000 x 75 ft. (1,524 x 23 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending January 31, 2007, the airport had 98,656 aircraft operations, an average of 270 per day: 77% general aviation, 23% air taxi and <1% scheduled commercial. There are 310 aircraft based at this airport: 82% single-engine, 15% multi-engine and 3% jet.^[1]