John C. Tune Airport

John C. Tune Airport

USGS aerial image, 2008
IATA: none – ICAO: KJWN – FAA LID: JWN
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority
Serves Nashville, Tennessee
Elevation AMSL 495 ft / 151 m
Coordinates 36°10′56″N 086°53′12″W / 36.18222°N 86.88667°W
Map
JWN

Location of airport in Tennessee

Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
2/20 5,500 1,676 Asphalt
Statistics (2009)
Aircraft operations 72,998
Based aircraft 165

John C. Tune Airport (ICAO: KJWN, FAA LID: JWN) is a public airport located in the western portion of the city of Nashville in Davidson County, Tennessee, United States. It is owned by the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority,[1] located approximately one mile (1.6 km) off of Briley Parkway in the Cockrill Bend area. It is a Class E airport.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned JWN by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.[2]

History

Tune Airport is named in honor of John Childress Tune, a Nashville attorney, civic leader, longtime aviation enthusiast and one of the principal developers of the modern aviation authority concept. He was also a former chairman of the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority. Planning for the construction of Tune Airport began in 1965 under Nashville's former Department of Aviation as a "reliever airport" designed to provide additional capacity at Nashville International Airport (Berry Field). The Department of Aviation received a state grant to purchase the Cockrill Bend property, and construction for the airport began in 1983. John C. Tune opened in July 1986. The current terminal was built in 1995.

Facilities and Aircraft

John C. Tune Airport covers an area of 390 acres (160 ha) at an elevation of 495 feet (151 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 2/20 which measures 5,500 by 100 feet (1,676 x 30 m).[1] The runway is long enough to serve corporate jets such as Lear Jets. For the 12-month period ending March 6, 2009, the airport had 72,998 aircraft operations, an average of 199 per day: 70% general aviation, 29% air taxi and <1% military. At that time there were 165 aircraft based at this airport: 79% single-engine, 16% multi-engine, 3% jet and 2% helicopter.[1]

Corporate Flight Management provides Fixed-Base Operator services for the airport. JWN has 120 T-hangars, plus 21,000 square feet (2,000 m2) and 19,000 square feet (1,800 m2) box hangars that include offices. Aircraft parking and apron space totals 360,000 square feet (33,000 m2), which can accommodate 55 tie-down aircraft. The airport has a precision instrument landing approach into Runway 20. Both Runways 2 and 20 have non-precision instrument approaches.

JWN is financially self-supporting, although some improvements are made with the assistance of state and federal grant money.

Services

This photo was taken by team The Peep Holes as part of the Photo of Wikipedia Takes Nashville.

John C. Tune Airport provides:

Renovations

John C. Tune's terminal received a significant renovation that was completed in 2005. The 3,600-square-foot (330 m2) updated terminal includes a pilot's lounge, conference room, flight planning room, vending area and pilot supply shop. Additional landscaping and parking renovations were completed in 2009.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 FAA Airport Master Record for JWN (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2009-07-02.
  2. ↑ Great Circle Mapper: KJWN - John C. Tune Airport - Nashville, Tennessee

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