Kirksville Regional Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Kirksville Regional Airport


IATA = IRK
ICAO = KIRK
FAA = IRK
type = Public
owner = City of Kirksville
operator =
city-served =
location = near Kirksville, Missouri
elevation-f = 966
elevation-m = 294
coordinates = coord|40|05|37|N|092|32|42|W|type:airport|display=inline
website =
r1-number = 18/36
r1-length-f = 6,005
r1-length-m = 1,830
r1-surface = Concrete
r2-number = 9/27
r2-length-f = 1,393
r2-length-m = 425
r2-surface = Turf
stat-year = 2006
stat1-header = Aircraft operations
stat1-data = 8,350
stat2-header = Based aircraft
stat2-data = 34
footnotes = Source: Federal Aviation AdministrationFAA-airport|ID=IRK|use=PU|own=PU|site=11834.*A, effective 2007-07-05]

Kirksville Regional Airport Airport codes|IRK|KIRK|IRK is a public airport located six miles (10 km) southeast of the central business district of Kirksville, a city in Adair County, Missouri, United States. The airport is located in unincorporated Adair County and is owned by the City of Kirksville. It is mostly used for general aviation, but is also served by one commercial airline. Service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.

On November 5, 2006, Air Midwest (operating as US Airways Express) commenced scheduled service to Kansas City International Airport. [ [http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=78947&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=915931 Mesa Air Group Announces Schedule and Fares for Kirksville, Missouri as US Airways Express (Oct. 13, 2006)] ] Previously, scheduled service was provided by RegionsAir (operating as American Connection) with flights to Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.

Facilities and aircraft

Kirksville Regional Airport covers an area of 409 acres (166 ha) which contains two runways: 18/36 has concrete paved surface measuring 6,005 x 100 ft (1,830 x 30 m), and 9/27 has a turf surface measuring 1,393 x 100 ft (425 x 30 m).

For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2006, the airport had 8,350 aircraft operations, an average of 22 per day: 78% general aviation, 14% scheduled commercial, 6% air taxi and 2% military. There are 34 aircraft based at this airport: 97% single engine and 3% multi-engine.

Airlines and destinations

* Air Choice One (St. Louis) [http://www.airchoiceone.com/index.php]

Incidents

* On October 19, 2004, Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 crashed on approach to Kirksville. Thirteen individuals died and two sustained injuries. The National Transportation Safety Board determined pilot error to be the cause of the accident. [cite web | url = http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/2006/AAR0601.htm | title = Aircraft Accident Report: Collision with Trees and Crash Short of Runway, Corporate Airlines Flight 5966, British Aerospace BAE-J3201, N875JX, Kirksville, Missouri, October 19, 2004 | publisher = National Transportation Safety Board | date = 2006-01-24] [cite web | url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/24/AR2006012401580.html | title = Poor Behavior, Fatigue Led to '04 Plane Crash | publisher = Washington Post | date = 2006-01-25]

References

External links

* [http://www.kirksvillecity.com/Kirksvilleregionalairport/index.htm Kirksville Regional Airport] (official site)
*WikiMapia|40.0935|-92.5449|14
*US-airport-ga|IRK

*Essential Air Service documents ( [http://dms.dot.gov/search/searchResultsSimple.cfm?searchType=docket&sortBy=desc&numberValue=2515 Docket Number 2515] ) from the U.S. Department of Transportation:
**PDF| [http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/pdf97/411210_web.pdf Order 2006-8-19: Air Midwest to provide essential air service at Kirksville] |405 KiB
**PDF| [http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/pdf97/402956_web.pdf Order 2006-6-32: Terminating subsidy under the Essential Air Service program, effective October 1, 2006] |218 KiB
**PDF| [http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/pdf92/335837_web.pdf Order 2005-6-14: RegionsAir to provide subsidized essential air service from June 1, 2005] |2.65 MiB