North Little Rock Municipal Airport

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Coordinates: 34°49′59″N 092°15′15″W / 34.83306, -92.25417

North Little Rock Municipal Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KORK – FAA: ORK
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of North Little Rock
Serves		North Little Rock, Arkansas
Elevation AMSL		545 ft / 166 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
5/23	5,002	1,525	Concrete
17/35	3,019	920	Asphalt
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations			37,200
Based aircraft			123
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

North Little Rock Municipal Airport (ICAO: KORK, FAA LID: ORK) is a city-owned public-use airport located four miles (6 km) north of the central business district of North Little Rock, a city in Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States.^[1] According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007-2011, it is categorized as a reliever airport.^[2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, North Little Rock Municipal Airport is assigned ORK by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned ORK to Cork Airport in Cork, Ireland).^[3]^[4]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

North Little Rock Municipal Airport covers an area of 621 acres (251 ha) which contains two runways: 5/23 with a 5,002 x 75 ft. (1,525 x 23 m) concrete surface and 17/35 with a 3,019 x 75 ft. (920 x 23 m) asphalt pavement.

For the 12-month period ending January 31, 2005, the airport had 37,200 aircraft operations, an average of 101 per day: 97% general aviation, 3% air taxi and <1% military. There are 123 aircraft based at this airport: 78% single-engine, 11% multi-engine, 7% helicopter, 3% jet and 1% ultralight.