Mid-Way Regional Airport is a city-owned public airport that serves

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. The airport is southeast of the

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of Midlothian. Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter

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for the

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and

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, but Mid-Way Regional Airport is assigned JWY by the FAA and has no IATA designation.

Facilities

Mid-Way Regional Airport covers at an elevation of above

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and has one

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: * Runway 18/36: 6,500 x 100 ft. (1,981 x 30 m), Surface:

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For the year ending 31 October 2017, the airport had 49,700 aircraft operations, averaging 136 per day: 99%

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and less than 1%

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. 101 aircraft were then based at this airport: 73% single-

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, 15% multi-engine, 7% gliders, 3% jet, 1% ultralights, and 1%

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Accidents and incidents

* 30 July 2010: An American Champion 7GCBC Citabria, registration number ''N5027G'', turned and struck the ground in a near-vertical nose-low attitude after departing for an instructional flight, killing the instructor pilot and student pilot. An autopsy of the instructor revealed severe

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of the right

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with superimposed fresh-recent

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, suggesting an acute

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(heart attack). No signs of heart trouble could be found in the instructor's prior medical history. The accident was attributed to ''"The flight instructor’s incapacitation due to preexisting but unrecognized coronary disease, and the student pilot’s distraction and inability to recover the airplane from a stall/

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at low altitude."'' * 8 April 2016: An American Champion 7GCBC Citabria, registration number ''N5046N'', climbed sharply and stalled on takeoff, striking the ground in a left-wing-low, nose-down attitude. The student pilot in the front seat was killed and the instructor in the rear seat sustained minor injuries. The instructor claimed to have tried to push the

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forward to prevent a stall, but the stick would not move, despite having operated freely during the

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. The accident was attributed to ''"The flight instructor's inability to move the control stick after takeoff for undetermined reasons, which resulted in an exceedance of the airplane's critical

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an inadvertent aerodynamic stall. The reason for the inability to move the control stick could not be determined, because postaccident examination revealed no evidence of flight control malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation."''

References

External links

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Airport Directory {{DEFAULTSORT:Mid-Way Regional Airport Airports in Texas Airports in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex Transportation in Ellis County, Texas

Facilities

Accidents and incidents

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