Tri State Airport

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Airport type Public Website TriStateAirport.com 7,017 2,139 Elevation 252 m Serves Huntington		Elevation AMSL 828 ft / 252 m 12/30 7,017 Code HTS Phone +1 304-453-6165

Owner Tri-State Airport Authority Address 1449 Co Rte 3/1, Huntington, WV 25704, USA Profiles Facebook

Landing at tri state airport in huntington wv

Tri-State Airport (IATA: HTS, ICAO: KHTS, FAA LID: HTS) (Milton J. Ferguson Field) is a public airport in Wayne County, West Virginia, three miles south of Huntington, West Virginia, near Ceredo and Kenova. Owned by the Tri-State Airport Authority, it serves Huntington, Ashland, Kentucky, and Ironton, Ohio. It has heavy use for general aviation, and after the withdrawal of Delta Air Lines in June 2012, is down to two airlines, one of which provides nationwide connecting service.

Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 115,263 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2010, 10.9% more than 2009. The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year).

Facilities

The airport covers 1,300 acres (526 ha) at an elevation of 828 feet (252 m). It has one runway, 12/30, 7,017 by 150 feet (2,139 x 46 m) asphalt.

In 2010 the airport had 13,306 aircraft operations, average 36 per day: 68% general aviation, 24% air taxi, 4% airline, and 4% military. 45 aircraft were then based at this airport: 69% single-engine, 18% multi-engine, 11% jet, and 2% helicopter.

Top destinations

FedEx Feeder is operated at the field by Mountain Air Cargo.

Incidents

On November 14, 1970, Southern Airways Flight 932, a chartered Southern Airways DC-9 commercial jet, crashed into a hill just short of Runway 12. The flight was carrying thirty-seven members of the Marshall University "Thundering Herd" football squad, eight members of the coaching staff, and twenty-five boosters. There were no survivors. The tragedy was the basis of the 2006 film We Are Marshall.

On January 8, 2003, Air Midwest Flight 5481 operating as US Airways Express Flight 5481 (N233YV), crashed at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, killing all 21 aboard. It was determined that the accident was caused primarily by the faulty adjustment of an elevator cable - work that was performed just 2 days earlier at a facility at Tri-State Airport - by a mechanic that had never worked on that type of aircraft.

On January 30, 2009, a Piper PA-34-200T Seneca crashed in the vicinity of KHTS during a significant snow event. The pilot was attempting to divert to KHTS due to a fuel emergency. All six aboard were killed.

References

Tri-State Airport Wikipedia

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