Tahlequah Municipal Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located two

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s (4 km) northwest of the

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Tahlequah Tahlequah ( ; ''Cherokee'': ᏓᎵᏆ, ''daligwa'' ) is a city in Cherokee County, Oklahoma located at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It is part of the Green Country region of Oklahoma and was established as a capital of the 19th-century ...

, a city in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States. It is included in the

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for 2011–2015, which

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it as a '' general aviation'' facility. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and

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, this airport is assigned TQH by the FAA, but has no designation from the IATA.

Facilities and aircraft

Tahlequah Municipal Airport covers an area of 125

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s (51 ha) at an elevation of 874 feet (266 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 17/35 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,001 by 75 feet (1,524 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending September 22, 2011, the airport had 15,400 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 42 per day. At that time there were 43 aircraft based at this airport: 86% single- engine, 12% multi-engine, and 2% helicopter.

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External links

Airport page
at City of Tahlequah website
Tahlequah Municipal Airport (TQH)
at Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission
Aerial image as of March 1995
from USGS '' The National Map'' * {{US-airport-ga, TQH, - Airports in Oklahoma Buildings and structures in Cherokee County, Oklahoma

Facilities and aircraft

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