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Meriden Markham Municipal Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

Location
  
Meriden, Connecticut

Website
  
MMK Website

Elevation
  
31 m

Owner
  
City of Meriden

Elevation AMSL
  
103 ft / 31 m

18/36
  
3,100

Phone
  
+1 203-630-2878

Meriden Markham Municipal Airport

Address
  
213 Evansville Ave, Meriden, CT 06451, USA

Similar
  
Tweed New Haven Air, Waterbur Airport, Interstate Aviation Inc, Hartford Airport

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Meriden Markham Municipal Airport (ICAO: KMMK, FAA LID: MMK) is a public-use airport located three miles (5 km) southwest of the central business district of Meriden, a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. This general aviation airport is owned by City of Meriden. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a local general aviation facility.

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Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Meriden Markham Municipal Airport is assigned MMK by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned MMK to Murmansk Airport in Murmansk, Russia).

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History

The history of the airport goes back to at least 1928 when Ernest L. Markham was named the first airport manager; on 14 July 1962 the airport was renamed in honor of Markham for his 32 years of dedicated service.

Facilities and aircraft

Meriden Markham Municipal Airport covers an area of 157 acres (64 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (18/36) measuring 3,100 x 75 ft (945 x 23 m).

For the 12-month period ending May 30, 2007, the airport had 18,028 aircraft operations, an average of 49 per day: 97% local general aviation, 1% transient general aviation, 1% air taxi and <1% military. There are 70 aircraft based at this airport: 96% single engine, 3% multi-engine and 1% helicopters.

The Connecticut Wing Civil Air Patrol Silver City Cadet Squadron (NER-CT-014) operates out of the airport.

References

Meriden Markham Municipal Airport Wikipedia