Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport

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Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KMEZ – FAA: MEZ
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of Mena
Location		Mena, Arkansas
Elevation AMSL		1,079 ft / 329 m
Coordinates		34°32′43″N 094°12′10″W / 34.54528, -94.20278
Website		www.MenaAirport.com
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
9/27	6,000	1,829	Asphalt
17/35	5,000	1,524	Asphalt
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations			27,500
Based aircraft			53
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport (ICAO: KMEZ, FAA LID: MEZ) is a public airport located two miles (3 km) southeast of the central business district of Mena, a city in Polk County, Arkansas, United States. It is owned by City of Mena.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport is assigned MEZ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA^[2] (which assigned MEZ to Messina, South Africa).^[3]^[4]

1 Facilities and aircraft
2 Allegations regarding Bill Clinton
3 Iran Contra
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport covers an area of 556 acres (225 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: Runway 9/27 measuring 6,000 x 100 ft. (1,829 x 30 m), and Runway 17/35 measuring 5,000 x 75 ft. (1,524 x 23 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending November 30, 2005, the airport had 27,500 aircraft operations, an average of 75 per day: 91% general aviation, 7% air taxi and 2% military. There are 53 aircraft based at this airport: 64% single engine, 28% multi-engine and 8% jet aircraft.^[1]

[edit] Allegations regarding Bill Clinton

During the Clinton presidential administration, there were accusations (most notably in the controversial film Clinton Chronicles) that Clinton, during his time as governor of Arkansas, and other high-ranking state officials were involved in some way with alleged illegal cocaine importation, money laundering, and drug use centered upon the airport in Mena.[1] These allegations have been disputed by several different investigations, including one by the Banking Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. [2].