Akron Airport is a privately owned, public-use airport

Airport

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 located one nautical miles (1.852 km) east of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Akron

Akron, New York

Akron, New York is a village in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was listed as 3,085 in the 2000 census. The name means a high place. It is part of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area....

, a village in Erie County

Erie County, New York

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, New York

New York

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, United States

United States

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.

Facilities and aircraft

Akron Airport covers an area of 137 acres (55.4 ha) which contains two runway

Runway

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s. Runway 7/25 has an asphalt

Asphalt

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 pavement measuring 3,270 by 75 feet (997 by 23 m). Runway 11/29 has a turf

Grass

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 surface measuring 1,955 by 50 feet (596 by 15 m).

For the 12-month period ending September 11, 2009, the airport had 50,900 aircraft operations, an average of 139 per day: 98% general aviation

General aviation

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 and 2% air taxi

Air taxi

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. At that time there were 54 aircraft based at this airport: 98% single-engine and 2% multi-engine.

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