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Mount Vernon Airport
Mount Vernon Outland Airport is a civil public use airport three miles (5 km) east of Mount Vernon, in Jefferson County, Illinois. It has no scheduled airline, but it was once served by Air Kentucky doing business as US Airways Express. From the 1960s through the mid-1980s the airport was also served by Ozark Airlines. This ended with Ozark Airlines being sold to Trans World Airlines (TWA) in 1986. The airport is named for longtime airport board member Earl Outland. It is home to EAA Chapter 1155. The airport was a stop in the 45th annual Air Race Classic in 2022 when a group of pilots raced parts across America. The airport was originally set to be a stop in the 2020 version, which was put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Facilities Mount Vernon Airport covers and has two runways: * 5/23: asphalt * 15/33: asphalt Aircraft For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2021, the airport has 73 aircraft operations per day, or about 27,000 per year. This is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asphalt Concrete
Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac, bitumen macadam, or rolled asphalt in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams. Asphalt mixtures have been used in pavement construction since the beginning of the twentieth century. It consists of mineral aggregate bound together with asphalt, laid in layers, and compacted. The process was refined and enhanced by Belgian-American inventor Edward De Smedt. The terms ''asphalt'' (or ''asphaltic'') ''concrete'', ''bituminous asphalt concrete'', and ''bituminous mixture'' are typically used only in engineering and construction documents, which define concrete as any composite material composed of mineral aggregate adhered with a binder. The abbreviation, ''AC'', is sometimes used for ''asphalt concrete'' but can also denote ''asphalt content'' or ''asphalt cement'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
