Perry-Houston County Airport

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Coordinates: 32°30′38″N 083°46′02″W / 32.51056, -83.76722

Perry-Houston County Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KPXE – FAA: PXE
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Perry-Houston County Airport Authority
Serves		Perry, Georgia
Elevation AMSL		418 ft / 127 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
18/36	5,002	1,525	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			22,000
Based aircraft			67
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Perry-Houston County Airport (ICAO: KPXE, FAA LID: PXE) is a public airport located four miles (6 km) northwest of the central business district of Perry, a city in Houston County, Georgia, United States. It is owned by the Perry-Houston County Airport Authority.^[1] The airport is also 10 miles south of Warner Robins, Georgia. It is used for general aviation, mainly flight training.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Perry-Houston County Airport is assigned PXE by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[2]

Central Georgia Aviation is the fixed base operator (FBO) located on the field. They provide a number of services to include: airport management, aviation fuel, hangar leasing/sales, passenger terminal and lounge, flight training,aircraft rental, aircraft maintenance, avionics sales and service, aircraft parts and aviation accessories.

1 History
2 Facilities and aircraft
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

This airfield was used during WWII for pilot training.

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Perry-Houston County Airport covers an area of 465 acres (188 ha) and contains one asphalt paved runway designated 18/36 which measures 5,002 x 100 ft. (1,525 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending January 31, 2006, the airport had 22,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 60 per day. There are 67 aircraft based at this airport: 91% single-engine, 6% multi-engine and 3% helicopter.^[1]