Gastonia Municipal Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) south of the central business district of Gastonia, a city in Gaston County, North Carolina, United States. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility. National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems .
This airport is assigned a three-letter location identifier of AKH by the Federal Aviation Administration, but it does not have an International Air Transport Association (IATA) airport code (the IATA assigned AKH to Prince Sultan Air Base in Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia).
Facilities and aircraft Gastonia Municipal Airport covers an area of 280 acres (113 ha) at an elevation of 798 feet (243 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 3/21 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,769 by 100 feet (1,149 x 30 m).
For the 12-month period ending July 4, 2022, the airport had 9,910 aircraft operations, an average of 27 per day: 99% general aviation, and <1% military. At that time there were 45 aircraft based at this airport: 39 single-engine, 4 multi-engine, 1 helicopter, and 1 jet.
See also List of airports in North Carolina
References
External links Gastonia Municipal Airport , official page at North Carolina DOT airport guide Aerial image as of March 1999 from USGS The National Map