Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport , formerly known as Craig Municipal Airport, is a public

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surfa ...

located eight miles (13 km) east of the central business district of

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, in Duval County,

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. It is owned by the

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. This mid-sized

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airport handles personal aircraft and small commuter planes. The entrance is located along St. Johns Bluff Road north of Atlantic Boulevard, although it also borders Atlantic Blvd to the south. The airport has a control tower and handles 400-500 aircraft operations daily. It previously served as a joint civil-military airport hosting an Army Aviation Support Facility and helicopter units of the

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prior to their relocation to nearby Cecil Field following the latter facility's inactivation as a naval air station in 1999. The

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's ''

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'' performed their first

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at Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport on June 15, 1946.

Facilities and aircraft

Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport covers an area of which contains two

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paved

runway According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt, concre ...

s: 5/23 measuring 4,004 x 120 ft and 14/32 measuring 4,008 x 120 ft. Runway 5/23 was repaved during the summer of 2011. In addition to filling cracks and adding a 120- x 150-foot

blast pad According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt concrete, as ...

, the entire runway was surfed with a 0.5-inch leveling course and a 1.5 inch Superpave surface course. In January 2012, the paving project was awarded the inaugural Ray Brown Airport Pavement Award by the National Asphalt Pavement Association, recognizing it as the highest quality airport asphalt pavement project completed during 2011. For the 12-month period ending October 20, 1999, the airport had 158,769 aircraft operations, an average of 434 per day: 86%

, 9% military and 5%

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. There are 319 aircraft based at this airport: 57% single-engine, 27% multi-engine, 7%

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, 6% military and 4% jet (12). The airport has 2 FBOs on the field, JAX Executive Jet Center and Sky Harbor Aviation. File:CRG Jacksonville FL Executive airport hangar.jpg, CRG Jacksonville FL Executive airport hangar File:Jacksonville executive airport lobby area.jpg, Jacksonville executive airport lobby area File:Jacksonville Executive airport lounge from tarmac.jpg, Jacksonville Executive airport lounge from tarmac

References

External links

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