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Airport type
  
Public

Elevation AMSL
  
2,492 ft / 760 m

17R/35L
  
6,501

Elevation
  
760 m

Owner
  
Clark County, Nevada

Serves
  
Las Vegas, Nevada

Website
  
www.hnd.aero

Code
  
HSH

Phone
  
+1 702-261-4800

Henderson Executive Airport

Operator
  
Clark County Department of Aviation

Address
  
3500 Executive Terminal Dr, Henderson, NV 89052, USA

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Henderson Executive Airport (IATA: HSH, ICAO: KHND, FAA LID: HND) is a public airport located 11 nautical miles (20 km; 13 mi) south of the central business district of Las Vegas, in Clark County, Nevada, United States. The airport is owned by Clark County and operated by the Clark County Department of Aviation. According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009-2013, it is categorized as a reliever airport. It was originally known as Sky Harbor Airport, but was renamed in 1996 when it was purchased by Clark County to be used as a reliever airport for McCarran International Airport.

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Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Henderson Executive Airport is assigned HND by the FAA and HSH by the IATA (which assigned HND to Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan). The airport's ICAO identifier is KHND.

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Facilities and aircraft

Henderson Executive Airport covers an area of 760 acres (310 ha) at an elevation of 2,492 feet (760 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 17R/35L measuring 6,501 by 100 feet (1,982 m × 30 m) and 17L/35R measuring 5,001 by 75 feet (1,524 m × 23 m).

For the 12-month period ending September 30, 2015, the airport had 71,323 aircraft operations, an average of 195 per day: 86% general aviation, 14% air taxi and <1% military aviation. At that time there were 252 aircraft based at this airport: 81% single-engine, 12% multi-engine, 7% jet and 3% helicopter.

The terminal building houses car rental, flight school and line service facilities, as well as the Landings Restaurant.

References

Henderson Executive Airport Wikipedia