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Four years later, the Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority (MKAA) was established. In 1990, runway 5R/23L was rebuilt to 9,000 feet (2,700 m). In 1992, the airport authority built a new 21-acre cargo facility on the north side of the airport for Federal Express, UPS and Airborne Express. Buildings were designed to meet the carriers' needs ...
McGhee Tyson Airport: P-S 1,069,565 Memphis: MEM: MEM KMEM Memphis International Airport: P-M 2,213,083 Nashville: BNA: BNA KBNA Nashville International Airport (Berry Field) P-L 8,017,347 Tri-Cities: TRI: TRI KTRI Tri-Cities Airport: P-N 200,086 Commercial service – nonprimary airports: Jackson: MKL: MKL KMKL Jackson Regional Airport: CS ...
Henry County Airport covers an area of 250 acres (100 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (2/20) measuring 5,001 ft × 100 ft (1,524 m × 30 m). For the 12-month period ending July 11, 2000, the airport had 16,445 aircraft operations, an average of 45 per day: 99.5% general aviation and 0.5% air taxi .
Alcoa is a city in Blount County, Tennessee, United States. Its population was 10,978 at the 2020 census. [5] It is part of the Knoxville, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area. As its name suggests, Alcoa was the site of a large aluminum smelting plant owned and operated by the Alcoa corporation (Aluminum Company of America). Formerly known as ...
US 129 north / US 411 Truck north (Alcoa Highway / SR 115) – Knoxville, Alcoa: Directional T interchange; no access from southbound US 129 to northbound US 411; northern end of US 129 concurrency; provides access to McGhee Tyson Airport: 73.1: 117.6: US 321 (Lamar Alexander Parkway / SR 73) – Lenoir City, Friendsville, Walland, Townsend
Maryville is home to one of 24 Alcoa Care-free Homes built in the United States in 1957–1958. [15] In the 1970s, after several department stores and other retailers moved from the downtown area to Alcoa's Midland shopping center, the city spent $10 million on a renewal project called "Now Town".
Regular Air Force operations at McGhee Tyson Airport ended on January 8, 1958, and the 354 FIS was inactivated on that date. The 355 FIS remained until 1 July 1960 when it was inactivated along with the F-86 interceptor squadrons, and the base turned over to Tennessee Air National Guard control and renamed McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base.
The airport was first served by American Airlines and Eastern Air Lines, and was a hub for American in the late 20th century. The airport now offers service to 99 destinations across the United States as well as a number of international destinations. In fiscal year 2022, it averaged 600 daily aircraft movements. [7]