Benson Municipal Airport is a public use

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located northwest of the

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, a city in

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and east of

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(TUS). The airport was opened in November 1999. Although most US airports use the same three-letter

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for the

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, and

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'Benson Municipal Airport is only assigned E95 by the FAA.

Facilities and aircraft

Benson Municipal Airport covers an area of at an

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. It has one

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: * 10/28 measuring

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For the 12-month period ending April 15, 2017, the airport had 24,400 aircraft operations, an average of 67 per day: 92%

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, and 2%

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. At that time there were 38 aircraft based at this airport: 84% single-

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, 5%

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, 3% multi-engine, 5%

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, and 3%

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Awards and recognition

In 2012 the 1955 Dodge Coronet Airport Courtesy Car at Benson Municipal provided by FBO SouthWestern Aviation, LLC was named "Airport Car of the Month" for June by EAA '' Sport Aviation Magazine''. DC3bensonairport

References

External links

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