North Little Rock Municipal Airport is a public use

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, United States. It is owned by the City of

North Little Rock North Little Rock is a city in Pulaski County, Arkansas, across the Arkansas from Little Rock in the central part of the state. The population was 64,591 at the 2020 census. In 2019 the estimated population was 65,903, making it the seventh-mo ...

and located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) north of its central business district. This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a

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'' for Little Rock National Airport. Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter

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for the

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and IATA, this airport is assigned ORK by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned ORK to

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Facilities and aircraft

North Little Rock Municipal Airport covers an area of 621 acres (251 ha) at an

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of 545 feet (166 m) above

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. It has two

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s: 5/23 is 5,002 by 75 feet (1,525 x 23 m) with a

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surface and 17/35 is 3,019 by 75 feet (920 x 23 m) with an

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surface. For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2008, the airport had 37,200 aircraft operations, an average of 101 per day: 97%

, 3%

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, and <1%

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. At that time there were 150 aircraft based at this airport: 78% single-

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, 13% multi-engine, 4% jet, 5%

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, and 1%

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. The airport's

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s (FBOs) are Barrett Aviation and Air Charter Express.Air Charter Express
. Retrieved October 19, 2011.

References

External links

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at Arkansas Department of Aeronautics
Airport page
at City of North Little Rock website
Aerial image as of March 2001
from

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