Mid Delta Regional Airport

Mid-Delta Regional Airport
USGS aerial image, 1996
IATA: GLHICAO: KGLHFAA LID: GLH
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of Greenville
Serves Greenville, Mississippi
Elevation AMSL 131 ft / 40 m
Website www.greenville.ms.us/...
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
18L/36R 8,001 2,439 Asphalt
18R/36L 7,019 2,139 Asphalt/Concrete
Statistics (2009)
Aircraft operations 37,295
Based aircraft 17
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]
Mid-Delta Regional
Location of airport in Mississippi

Mid-Delta Regional Airport[2] (IATA: GLHICAO: KGLHFAA LID: GLH) is a public-use airport owned by the city of Greenville, Mississippi and located in unincorporated Washington County, Mississippi.[3] It is five nautical miles (9 km) northeast of the central business district of Greenville.[1] This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorized it as commercial service - non-primary.[4] It is served by one commercial airline which is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. Formerly, the facility was known as Greenville Air Force Base.

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Facilities and aircraft

Mid-Delta Regional Airport is the only commercial airport located in the Mississippi Delta. Located approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north of central Greenville, MDRA is situated on 2,000 acres (810 ha) of land, with a sizable portion in the Mid-Delta Empowerment Zone. A controlled airfield, MDRA has a control tower which is manned from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., seven days a week.

The facility has two runways, the primary being 18L/36R which is composed of an asphalt surface 150 feet (46 m) wide by 8,001 feet (2,439 m) long. Runway 18L/36R is a precision approach runway with an Instrument landing System (ILS), medium approach lighting system with rails, (MALSR) approach lights and High Intensity Runway Lights (HIRLs). A parallel runway, 18R/36L, has an asphalt and concrete surface with a width of 150 feet (46 m) and length of 7,019 feet (2,139 m). Runway 18R/36L is a non-precision runway with Medium Intensity Runway Lights, (MIRL). The runways are connected by six taxiways. Ramp space is abundant, with 2,660,000 square feet (247,000 m2) of concrete ramp area.

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2009, the airport had 37,295 aircraft operations, an average of 102 per day: 47% military, 30% air taxi, 23% general aviation, and <1% scheduled commercial. At that time there were 17 aircraft based at this airport: 88.2% single-engine and 11.8% jet.[1]

Airline and destination

Airlines Destinations
Pinnacle Airlines Memphis

References

Mississippi portal
Aviation portal
  1. ^ a b c FAA Airport Master Record for GLH (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 29 July 2010.
  2. ^ "Mid-Delta Regional Airport". City of Greenville. http://www.greenville.ms.us/Airport.html. Retrieved 19 September 2010. 
  3. ^ "Greenville city, Mississippi." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on July 15, 2011.
  4. ^ National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013: Appendix A: Part 3 (PDF, 1.28 MB). Federal Aviation Administration. Updated 15 October 2008.

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