Avoca Airport is privately owned, public use

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located two

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s (4 km) southeast of the

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of Avoca, in

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, United States. It is owned by the people whose land it encompasses. Until 2008 it was known as Rasor Airport, owned and managed by William Rasor.

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The airport covers an area of 40

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s (16 ha) at an

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of 726 feet (221 m) above

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. It has one

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designated 9/27 with a turf surface measuring 2,105 by 100 feet (642 x 30 m). No

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is available at the airport. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2021, the airport had 150 aircraft operations, all

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, an average of 12 per month. For the same time period, there are 7

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based on the field, all single-engine airplanes.

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Aerial image as of April 1999
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