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Gastonia Municipal Airport
Gastonia Municipal Airport
	IATA: none; ICAO: KAKH; FAA LID: AKH;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Gastonia
Serves	Gastonia, North Carolina
Elevation AMSL	798 ft / 243 m
Coordinates	35°12′10″N 081°08′59″W / 35.20278°N 81.14972°W
Website	gastonianc.gov/municipal-airport
Map
	AKH Location of airport in North Carolina
Runways
Statistics (2022)
Aircraft operations (year ending 7/4/2022)
Aircraft operations (year ending 7/4/2022)	9,910
Based aircraft	45
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Gastonia Municipal Airport (ICAO: KAKH, FAA LID: AKH) is a city-owned, public-use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) south of the central business district of Gastonia, a city in Gaston County, North Carolina, United States.^[1] It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.^[2]

This airport is assigned a three-letter location identifier of AKH by the Federal Aviation Administration, but it does not have an International Air Transport Association (IATA) airport code (the IATA assigned AKH to Prince Sultan Air Base in Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia).^[1]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Facilities and aircraft

Gastonia Municipal Airport covers an area of 280 acres (113 ha) at an elevation of 798 feet (243 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 3/21 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,769 by 100 feet (1,149 x 30 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending July 4, 2022, the airport had 9,910 aircraft operations, an average of 27 per day: 99% general aviation, and <1% military. At that time there were 45 aircraft based at this airport: 39 single-engine, 4 multi-engine, 1 helicopter, and 1 jet.^[1]