Oakland/Troy Airport is a county-owned public-use airport located east of the

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of Troy, a city in

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, Michigan, United States. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

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as a regional reliever airport facility. The Oakland/Troy Airport is considered the county's "executive" airport. Business travelers and tourists using private, corporate and charter aircraft benefit from the airport's convenient proximity to business, recreation and entertainment facilities. It is located between Maple Road and 14 Mile Road and Coolidge Highway and Crooks Road. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and

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, Oakland/Troy Airport is assigned VLL by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned VLL to Valladolid, Spain). Oakland/Troy was formerly designated 7D2 but changed March 17, 2005 after an automated weather station was installed at the field.

History

Runway 9/27 was changed to Runway 10/28 in October 2021 after resurfacing the runway and changing taxiway signs. This maintenance was done along with runway resurfacing at Oakland County International Airport (KPTK) and Oakland/Southwest Airport (Y47). The construction has a planned completion date of 10/15/2021.

Facilities and aircraft

Oakland/Troy Airport covers an area of which contains one runway designated 9/27 with a asphalt pavement. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had 32,466 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 88 per day. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2021, the airport had 30,000 aircraft operations per year, or 82 per day. It consisted completely of general aviation. For the same time period, there were 104 aircraft based on the field: 92 single-engine and 5 multi-engine airplanes, 6 helicopters, and 1 ultralight. The airport has two FBOs that offer fuel, hangars, WiFi, and more.

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