Roscoe Turner Airport

Roscoe Turner Airport
Roscoe Turner Airport
	IATA: CRX; ICAO: KCRX; FAA LID: CRX;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Corinth - Alcorn County
Serves	Corinth, Mississippi
Elevation AMSL	425 ft / 130 m
Coordinates	34°54′54″N 088°36′13″W / 34.91500°N 88.60361°W
Runways
Statistics (2009)
Aircraft operations
Aircraft operations	16,400
Based aircraft	16
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Roscoe Turner Airport (IATA: CRX, ICAO: KCRX, FAA LID: CRX) is a public-use airport located four nautical miles (7 km) southwest of the central business district of Corinth, a city in Alcorn County, Mississippi, United States. It is owned by the City of Corinth and Alcorn County.^[1] This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.^[2]

Facilities and aircraft[]

Roscoe Turner Airport covers an area of 542 acres (219 ha) at an elevation of 425 feet (130 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 18/36 with an asphalt surface measuring 6,500 by 100 feet (1,981 x 30 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending October 29, 2009, the airport had 16,400 aircraft operations, an average of 44 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% military. At that time there were 16 aircraft based at this airport: 62.5% single-engine, 25% multi-engine and 12.5% ultralight.^[1]

Accidents and incidents[]

On December 24, 2015 a single engine plane, registered to North Mississippi Pulmonology Clinic in Booneville crashed onto County Road 504 just before 10:30am. Four people were on board the aircraft. One was flown to a hospital in Memphis and the other three were sent to a local hospital in Corinth for observation. ^[3]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d FAA Airport Form 5010 for CRX PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 29 July 2010.
^ National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013: Appendix A: Part 3 (PDF, 1.28 MB) Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine. Federal Aviation Administration. Updated 15 October 2008.
^ http://www.wtva.com/news/Plane_crash_reported_in_Alcorn_County_.html

External links[]

Aerial image as of 17 February 1996 from USGS The National Map
FAA Terminal Procedures for CRX, effective February 24, 2022
Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for CRX
- AirNav airport information for CRX
- ASN accident history for CRX
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for CRX

[FAA-1] FAA Airport Form 5010 for CRX PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 29 July 2010.

[2] National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013: Appendix A: Part 3 (PDF, 1.28 MB) Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine. Federal Aviation Administration. Updated 15 October 2008.

[3] ttp://www.wtva.com/news/Plane_crash_reported_in_Alcorn_County_.html

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