Gastonia Municipal Airport


Gastonia Municipal Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located four nautical miles south of the central business district of Gastonia, a city in Gaston County, North Carolina, United States. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.
This airport is assigned a three-letter location identifier of AKH by the Federal Aviation Administration, but it does not have an International Air Transport Association airport code.

Facilities and aircraft

Gastonia Municipal Airport covers an area of 280 acres at an elevation of 798 feet above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 3/21 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,770 by 100 feet.
For the 12-month period ending June 26, 2009, the airport had 50,040 aircraft operations, an average of 137 per day: 97.9% general aviation, 2% air taxi, and <1% military.
At that time there were 36 aircraft based at this airport: 78% single-engine, 19% multi-engine, and 3% jet.