James Tucker Airport (also known as James Tucker Perry County Airport) is a county-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Linden, a town in Perry County, Tennessee, United States. The airport is located on the Atlanta and Memphis sectional charts. Construction of the airport was completed in 1962 t a cost of $218,482. Originally known as Perry County Airport, it was renamed in honor of a local citizen in 2016. Efforts to bring an airport to Perry County date back to 1946. A group of students from a local high school petitioned the county to construct a public airport after having been introduced to aviation through the donation of a Link Trainer to the school. An annual air show was held at the airport in the 1960s.
James Tucker Airport is categorized a nonprimary basic airport in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems, and is unclassified in the FAA's General Aviation Airport asset role system (the only airport in Tennessee listed as unclassified).
Facilities and aircraft James Tucker Airport covers an area of and is situated at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 18/36 with a asphalt surface.
The airport is unattended and does not have fuel services. It is included under the Jackson FSS. It has a beacon that is operational from sunset to sunrise, pilot controlled runway lighting, and 2-light Precision Approach Path Indicators on both runways. NOTAMs are filed with Jackson Regional Airport.JAMES TUCKER AIRPORT (M15) at FAA Aeronautical Information Services - National Flight Data Center (NFDC), effective 2018-04-26PERRY COUNTY - M15 at Tennessee DOT Airport Directory
See also List of airports in Tennessee
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