Roscoe Turner Airport
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Roscoe Turner Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | City of Corinth - Alcorn County | ||||||||||
| Serves | Corinth, Mississippi | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 425 ft / 130 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°54′54″N 088°36′13″W / 34.91500°N 88.60361°W | ||||||||||
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Roscoe Turner Airport (IATA: CRX, ICAO: KCRX, FAA LID: CRX) is a public-use airport located four nautical miles (7 km) southwest of the central business district of Corinth, a city in Alcorn County, Mississippi, United States. It is owned by the City of Corinth and Alcorn County.[1] This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[2]
Roscoe Turner Airport covers an area of 542 acres (219 ha) at an elevation of 425 feet (130 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 18/36 with an asphalt surface measuring 6,500 by 100 feet (1,981 x 30 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending October 29, 2009, the airport had 16,400 aircraft operations, an average of 44 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% military. At that time there were 16 aircraft based at this airport: 62.5% single-engine, 25% multi-engine and 12.5% ultralight.[1]
Accidents and incidents
- On December 24, 2015 a single engine plane, registered to North Mississippi Pulmonology Clinic in Booneville crashed onto County Road 504 just before 10:30am. Four people were on board the aircraft. One was flown to a hospital in Memphis and the other three were sent to a local hospital in Corinth for observation.[3]