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Airport type
  
Public

Elevation AMSL
  
425 ft / 130 m

6,500
  
1,981

Elevation
  
130 m

Serves
  
Corinth, Mississippi

18/36
  
6,500

Code
  
CRX

Phone
  
+1 662-287-3223

Owner
  
City of Corinth - Alcorn County

Address
  
Airport Rd, Corinth, MS 38834, USA

Similar
  
The Alliance, Econo Lodge, Dilworth, Brose Autoplex, Crossroads Museum

Roscoe Turner Airport (IATA: CRX, ICAO: KCRX, FAA LID: CRX) is a public-use airport located four nautical miles (7 km) southwest of the central business district of Corinth, a city in Alcorn County, Mississippi, United States. It is owned by the City of Corinth and Alcorn County. This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.

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Facilities and aircraft

Roscoe Turner Airport covers an area of 542 acres (219 ha) at an elevation of 425 feet (130 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 18/36 with an asphalt surface measuring 6,500 by 100 feet (1,981 x 30 m).

For the 12-month period ending October 29, 2009, the airport had 16,400 aircraft operations, an average of 44 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% military. At that time there were 16 aircraft based at this airport: 62.5% single-engine, 25% multi-engine and 12.5% ultralight.

Accidents and incidents

  • On December 24, 2015 a single engine plane, registered to North Mississippi Pulmonology Clinic in Booneville crashed onto County Road 504 just before 10:30am. Four people were on board, one was flown to a hospital in Memphis and the other three were sent to a local hospital in Corinth for observation.
  • References

    Roscoe Turner Airport Wikipedia