Capital City Airport (Kentucky)

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Capital City Airport
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Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCommonwealth of Kentucky
Serves Frankfort, Kentucky
Elevation  AMSL 806 ft / 246 m
Coordinates 38°10′55″N084°54′22″W / 38.18194°N 84.90611°W / 38.18194; -84.90611
Website cca.ky.gov
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
7/255,9001,798Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations34,200
Based aircraft71

Capital City Airport( IATA : FFT, ICAO : KFFT, FAA LID : FFT) is a public use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) southwest of the central business district of Frankfort, a city in Franklin County, Kentucky, United States. This airport is owned by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. [1] It is used mostly for general aviation and, to a limited extent, for military aviation.

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Facilities and aircraft

Capital City Airport covers an area of 375 acres (152 ha) at an elevation of 806 feet (246 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 7/25 which measures 5,900 by 100 feet (1,798 x 30 m). [1]

For the 12-month period ending March 8, 2007, the airport had 34,200 aircraft operations, an average of 93 per day: 88% general aviation, 9% air taxi and 3% military. At that time there were 71 aircraft based at this airport: 75% single-engine, 14% multi-engine and 11% helicopter. [1]

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