Hastings Municipal Airport is two miles northwest of

Hastings Hastings () is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England, east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...

Adams County, Nebraska Adams County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 31,364. Its county seat is Hastings. The county was formed in 1867 and organized in 1871. It is named for John Adams, the sec ...

. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a "

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" airport. The first airline flights were Mid-West Airlines Cessna 190s in 1950-51. Frontier DC-3s arrived in 1959 and its last Convair 580s left in 1979.

Facilities

The airport covers 504 acres (204 ha) at an

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of 1,961 feet (598 m). It has two concrete runways: 14/32 is 6,451 by 100 feet (1,966 x 30 m) and 4/22 is 4,501 by 75 feet (1,372 x 23 m). In the year ending June 23, 2010 the airport had 19,000 aircraft operations, average 52 per day: 96%

, 3%

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, and 1% military. 25 aircraft were then based at this airport: 84% single-engine and 16% multi-engine.

References

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Hastings (HSI)
from the Nebraska Department of Aeronautics
Aerial image as of April 1999
from

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'' * {{US-airport-ga, HSI Airports in Nebraska Buildings and structures in Adams County, Nebraska Transportation in Adams County, Nebraska