Marianna Municipal Airport is an airport in Marianna, Jackson County,

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, northeast of Downtown Marianna. The

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(FAA)'s National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013 categorized it as a

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airport. It was formerly Graham Air Base. Many U.S. airports use the same three-letter

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for the

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and IATA, but this airport is MAI to the FAA and has no IATA code. (IATA assigned MAI to

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History

Military use

Civil use

Starting in 1946

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s and

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s landed at Marianna. National pulled out in 1961 and the airport has had few or no airline flights since. The airport has two by intersecting hard surface runways with a pavement strength of 56,500 pounds single wheel load. Runway 18/36 is the primary runway. The USAF control tower and base operations building remain on the flight line, but the airport has been an uncontrolled field for its entire time as a civil airport. The airport continues to see military aircraft, with a third of the airport's operations normally being transient military training flights, mostly Army helicopters from

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and Navy helicopters from

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Facilities

The airport covers at an

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of 110 feet (34 m). It has two operational

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runways: Rwy 8/26 is 4,895 by 100 feet (1,492 x 30 m) and Rwy 18/36 is 4,896 by 100 feet (1,492 x 30 m). In the year ending March 9, 2009 the airport had 28,016 aircraft operations, average 76 per day: 67%

and 33% military. 30 aircraft were then based at the airport: 66.7% single-engine, 20% multi-engine, 6.7%

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and 6.7% glider.

References

External links

Marianna Municipal Airport
at City of Marianna website * {{Florida airports Airports in Florida Transportation buildings and structures in Jackson County, Florida