John C. Tune Airport

Infobox Airport
name = John C. Tune Airport


IATA = JWN
ICAO = KJWN
FAA = JWN
type = Public
owner =
operator = Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority
city-served = Nashville, Tennessee
location =
elevation-f = 495
elevation-m = 151
coordinates = coord|36|10|56|N|86|53|12|W|region:US_type:airport
website =
r1-number = 2/20
r1-length-f = 5,500
r1-length-m = 1,676
r1-surface = Asphalt
stat-year =
stat1-header = Aircraft operations
stat1-data = 65,820
stat2-header = Based aircraft
stat2-data = 155
footnotes = Source: Federal Aviation AdministrationFAA-airport|ID=JWN|use=PU|own=PU|site=22862.*A, effective 2008-04-10]

John C. Tune Airport Airport codes|JWN|KJWN is a public airport located in the western portion of the city of Nashville in Davidson County, Tennessee, USA. It is operated by the Nashville Airport Authority, located approximately 1 mile (1.5 km) off of Briley Parkway. It is a Class D airport.

Tune Airport, named in honor of a former chairman of the Airport Authority, was planned in the 1970s and built in the early 1980s as a "reliever airport" designed to divert almost all general aviation from Nashville International Airport (Berry Field), leaving the larger facility for flights on scheduled airlines and its service as an Air National Guard base. However, many general aviation users were reluctant to leave NIA and its well-developed infrastructure. Tune Airport was underutilized for years until increasing fees at NIA drove a considerable number of users to Tune in recent years.

John C. Tune Airport has only one runway, but it is long enough to serve small jets such as Lear Jets.

References

External links

* [http://www.johntune.com/ John C. Tune Airport]