Harnett Regional Jetport is a county-owned public-use

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in Harnett County,

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. The airport is located four nautical miles (7 km) northwest of the central business district of

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. It was formerly known as Harnett County Airport. Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter

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for the

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and IATA, this facility is assigned HRJ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA. The airport's ICAO identifier is KHRJ.

Facilities and aircraft

Harnett Regional Jetport covers an area of at an

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of 202 feet (62 m) above

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. It has one

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designated 5/23 with an

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surface measuring 5,000 by 75 feet (1,524 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending September 7, 2009, the airport had 51,300 aircraft operations, an average of 140 per day: 86%

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, 14%

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, and <1%

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. At that time there were 53 aircraft based at this airport: 60% single-

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, 9% multi-engine, 4% jet and 26%

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References

External links

Harnett Regional Jetport
at Harnett County website * at

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