Indianola Municipal Airport is a public use

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in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States. The airport is owned by the City of IndianolaPoplarville, Hattiesburg among airports receiving grants
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. March 12, 2010. Retrieved on September 23, 2010. and located two nautical miles (4 km) northwest of the central business district. This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a ''

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'' facility. In 2010 the airport received a $88,997

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grant to rehabilitate the airport beacon and to fund the installation of a water system. 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 IDL by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.

History

The airport was opened during

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, and was designated as Indianola Auxiliary Field and was used as an auxiliary training airfield supporting the Army pilot training school at

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. It was turned over for civil use in January 1947.

Facilities and aircraft

Indianola Municipal Airport covers an area of 600 acres (243 ha) at an

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of 126 feet (38 m) above

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. It has one

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designated 18/36 with a

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surface measuring 7,004 by 150 feet (2,135 x 46 m). For the 12-month period ending February 8, 2012, the airport had 21,500

aircraft operations, an average of 58 per day. At that time there were 21 aircraft based at this airport: 86% single-

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and 14% multi-engine.

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Aerial image as of March 1992
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History

Facilities and aircraft

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