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Silver Springs Airport is two miles southwest of Silver Springs, in Lyon County,
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. It is owned by Lyon County and leased to Silver Springs Airport, LLC. Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter
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, but this airport is SPZ to the FAA and has no IATA code (IATA assigned SPZ to
Springdale Municipal Airport Springdale Municipal Airport is a public use airport in Washington County, Arkansas, United States. It is owned by the City of Springdale and located one nautical mile (2  km) southeast of its central business district. This airport is ...
in
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).


History

The airport was built by the
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about 1942, and was known as Churchill Flight Strip. It was an emergency landing airfield for military training flights. It closed after
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, and was turned over for local government use by the
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.


Facilities

Silver Springs Airport covers at an elevation of . Its single runway, 6/24, is . For the 12-month period ending March 31, 2022, the airport had 12,660 aircraft operations, an average of 35 per day: 85%
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and 14% military. 15 aircraft at that time were based at this airport, 14 single-engine and 1 military. The airport started improvements in 2016, including jet fuel support.


See also

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List of airports in Nevada This is a list of airports in Nevada (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that we ...


References


Other sources

* * Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites History's Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC, 2004.


External links

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