Alexandria Municipal Airport

Alexandria Municipal Airport
Chandler Field
IATA: AXN – ICAO: KAXN – FAA LID: AXN
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of Alexandria
Serves Alexandria, Minnesota
Elevation AMSL 1,425 ft / 434 m
Coordinates 45°51′59″N 095°23′41″W / 45.86639°N 95.39472°W
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
13/31 5,100 1,554 Asphalt
4/22 4,099 1,249 Asphalt
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations 25,500
Based aircraft 57
Source: Minnesota DOT,[1] FAA[2]

Alexandria Municipal Airport[1][3] (IATA: AXN, ICAO: KAXN, FAA LID: AXN), also known as Chandler Field, is a city-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) southwest of the central business district of Alexandria, a city in Douglas County, Minnesota, United States.[2]

Facilities and aircraft

The airport covers an area of 640 acres (260 ha) at an elevation of 1,425 feet (434 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 13/31 is 5,100 by 100 feet (1,554 x 30 m) and 4/22 is 4,099 by 75 feet (1,249 x 23 m).[2]

For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2005, the airport had 25,500 aircraft operations, an average of 69 per day: 90% general aviation, 9% air taxi and 1% military. At that time there were 57 aircraft based at this airport: 88% single-engine, 10% multi-engine and 2% helicopter.[2]

Cargo

Airport Operations

Several operations and/or businesses at the airport include the following:

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Alexandria Municipal Airport (Chandler Field)" (PDF). Airport Directory. Minnesota Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 FAA Airport Master Record for AXN (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2009-07-02.
  3. ↑ Alexandria Aviation, Inc., the fixed base operator

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