Port Meadville Airport | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Owner | Crawford County Regional Airport Authority | ||||||||||
Serves | Meadville, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 1,399 ft / 426 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 41°37′36″N 080°12′53″W / 41.62667°N 80.21472°W | ||||||||||
Website | https://www.portmeadvilleairport.com | ||||||||||
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Port Meadville Airport (IATA: MEJ, ICAO: KGKJ, FAA LID: GKJ) is a public use airport located three nautical miles (3.5 mi; 5.6 km) west of the central business district of Meadville, in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States.[1] It is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[2]
Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned GKJ by the FAA and MEJ by the IATA.[3]
Port Meadville Airport covers an area of 250 acres (100 ha) at an elevation of 1,399 feet (426 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 7/25 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,001 by 75 feet (1,524 by 23 m).[4]
The airport also has one 50 by 50 feet (15 m × 15 m) concrete helipad that serves as the home base for Stat MedEvac 7, a regional air and ground critical care transport system.[5]
For the 12-month period ending May 21, 2019, the airport had 13,369 aircraft operations, an average of 37 per day: 97% general aviation, 2% air taxi, and 1% military. At that time there were 17 aircraft based at this airport: 77% single-engine, 12% multi-engine, 6% jet, and 6% helicopter.[6]