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Airport type
  
Public

Elevation AMSL
  
211 ft / 64 m

5,000
  
1,524

Phone
  
+1 540-699-0924

Location
  
Stafford, Virginia

15/33
  
5,000

Elevation
  
64 m

Stafford Regional Airport

Owner/Operator
  
Stafford Regional Airport Authority

Address
  
95 Aviation Way, Fredericksburg, VA 22406, USA

Touch go at stafford regional airport


Stafford Regional Airport (ICAO: KRMN, FAA LID: RMN) is a public airport located three miles (5 km) southwest of the central business district of Stafford, the county seat of Stafford County, Virginia, United States. The airport is southwest of the intersection of Route 630 and U.S. Route 1 near Interstate 95, approximately 40 miles (64 km) south of Washington, D.C. and 60 miles (97 km) north of Richmond. It is owned and operated by the Stafford Regional Airport Authority, an independent body of representatives from Stafford and Prince William Counties and the City of Fredericksburg.

Contents

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Stafford Regional Airport is assigned RMN by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned RMN to Rumginae, Papua New Guinea).

Yak takeoff from stafford regional airport


Facilities and aircraft

Stafford Regional Airport covers an area of 566 acres (229 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (15/33) measuring 5,000 x 100 ft (1,524 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2004, the airport had 7,667 aircraft operations, an average of 21 per day: 93% general aviation and 7% military.

Accidents

The airport was the site of a fatal accident on February 22, 2006, involving a Lancair Columbia 400 piloted by a private pilot. The pilot and three passengers were killed when the aircraft flew into trees surrounding the runway after an aborted landing attempt via ILS. Following an investigation, the NTSB cited pilot error as the most likely cause of the accident.

References

Stafford Regional Airport Wikipedia