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]

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
Map
AKH Location of airport in North Carolina
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 3/21 3,770 1,149 Asphalt
Statistics (2009)
Aircraft operations 50,040 Based aircraft 36
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

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 3,770 by 100 feet (1,149 x 30 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending June 26, 2009, the airport had 50,040 aircraft operations, an average of 137 per day: 97.9% general aviation, 2% air taxi, and <1% military. At that time there were 36 aircraft based at this airport: 78% single-engine, 19% multi-engine, and 3% jet.[1]

References

External links

• Gastonia Municipal Airport, official page
• "Gastonia Municipal Airport – AKH" (PDF). at North Carolina DOT airport guide
• Aerial image as of March 1999 from USGS The National Map
• FAA Terminal Procedures for AKH, effective June 16, 2022

• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for AKH
  • AirNav airport information for KAKH
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures