Meriden Markham Municipal Airport

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Meriden Markham Municipal Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KMMK – FAA: MMK
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of Meriden
Location		Meriden, Connecticut
Elevation AMSL		103 ft / 31 m
Coordinates		41°30′31″N 072°49′46″W / 41.50861, -72.82944
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
18/36	3,100	945	Asphalt
Statistics (2002)
Aircraft operations			18,028
Based aircraft			78
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Meriden Markham Municipal Airport (ICAO: KMMK, FAA LID: MMK) is a public-use airport located three miles (5 km) southwest of the central business district of Meriden, a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. This general aviation airport is owned by City of Meriden.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Meriden Markham Municipal Airport is assigned MMK by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned MMK to Murmansk Airport in Murmansk, Russia). ^[2] ^[3]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Meriden Markham Municipal Airport covers an area of 157 acres (64 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (18/36) measuring 3,100 x 75 ft. (945 x 23 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending April 1, 2002, the airport had 18,028 aircraft operations, an average of 49 per day: 99% general aviation, 1% air taxi and <1% military. There are 78 aircraft based at this airport: 96% single engine, 3% multi-engine and 1% helicopters.^[1]