Seneca County Airport is a county-owned public-use

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located southwest of the

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, a city in Seneca County,

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Facilities and aircraft

Seneca County Airport has one

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designated 6/24 with a 4000 x 75 ft (1219.2 x 22.9 m)

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pavement. For the 12-month period ending December 4, 2006, the airport had 60,165 aircraft operations, an average of 164 per day: 48%

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, 51%

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and <1%

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. At that time there were 64 aircraft based at this airport: 75% single-

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, 23% multi-engine and 2% jet.

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