Ellington Airport | |||||||||||
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| Summary | |||||||||||
| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | City of Lewisburg | ||||||||||
| Serves | Lewisburg, Tennessee | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 717 ft / 219 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°30′25″N086°48′14″W / 35.50694°N 86.80389°W | ||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration [1] | |||||||||||
Ellington Airport( ICAO : KLUG, FAA LID : LUG) is a city-owned public-use airport located three miles (5 km) north of the central business district of Lewisburg, a city in Marshall County, Tennessee, United States. [1]
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Ellington Airport is assigned LUG by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA [2] (which assigned LUG to Agno Airport in Lugano, Switzerland [3] ).
Ellington Airport covers an area of 200 acres (81 ha) and contains one asphalt paved runway designated 2/20 which measures 5,002 x 75 ft (1,525 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending July 23, 1998, the airport had 17,050 aircraft operations, an average of 46 per day: 91% general aviation, 9% air taxi and <1% military. At that time there were 33 aircraft based at this airport: 79% single-engine, 18% multi-engine and 3% ultralight. [1]