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Oneonta Municipal Airport is a public use
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located three nautical miles (6 km) north of the
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of Oneonta, a city in Otsego County,
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. The airport is owned by the City of Oneonta. It once had scheduled air service on
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, formerly known as Catskill Airways.


Facilities and aircraft

Oneonta Municipal Airport covers an area of at an
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of 1,763 feet (537 m) above
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. It has one
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designated 6/24 with an
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surface measuring 4,200 by 75 feet (1,280 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending February 21, 2008, the airport had 21,600 aircraft operations, an average of 59 per day: 86%
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, 14%
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, and <1%
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. At that time there were 9 aircraft based at this airport: 67% single-
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, 22% multi-engine and 11%
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.


See also

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External links

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