For the United States Air Force use of the airport, see Ardmore Air Force Base

Ardmore Air Force Base

Ardmore Air Force Base is an inactive United States Air Force base, approximately 11 miles northeast of Ardmore, Oklahoma. It was active during World War II as a heavy bomber training airfield and during the early years of the Cold War as a troop carrier base...

Ardmore Municipal Airport , also known as Ardmore Industrial Airpark, is a general aviation

General aviation

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 airport located 10 miles (16 km) northeast of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Ardmore

Ardmore, Oklahoma

Ardmore is a business, cultural and tourism city in and the county seat of Carter County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 24,283, while a 2007 estimate has the Ardmore micropolitan statistical area totaling 56,694 residents...

, (near Gene Autry, OK

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) cities in Carter County

Carter County, Oklahoma

Carter County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of 2010, the population was 47,557. Its county seat is Ardmore.Carter County is part of the Ardmore, Oklahoma, Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:According to the U.S...

, Oklahoma

Oklahoma

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, United States

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.

Facilities

Ardmore Municipal Airport covers 2503 acres (1,013 ha) and has two runway

Runway

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s:

• Runway 13/31: 7,220 x 150 ft (2,201 x 46 m), Surface: Asphalt
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   to be expanded to 9,000 ft)
• Runway 17/35: 5,006 x 100 ft (1,526 x 30 m), Surface: Asphalt

The airport has an FAA staffed control tower, full instrumentation, parking capacity for up to 100 commercial sized aircraft and over 36000 sq ft (3,344.5 m²). of hangar space. The associated industrial park has over 2900 acres (11.7 km²), with Burlington Northern Santa Fe providing a spur into the park.

Current industries at the Airpark including King Aerospace, Higgins Interiors, Inc., Dollar General Distribution Center, East Jordan Iron Works

East Jordan Iron Works

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, Carbonyx, Inc., and Online Packaging.

History

The airport is located on the site of the former Ardmore Army Air Field' from 1942 to 1946 and later Ardmore Air Force Base

Ardmore Air Force Base

Ardmore Air Force Base is an inactive United States Air Force base, approximately 11 miles northeast of Ardmore, Oklahoma. It was active during World War II as a heavy bomber training airfield and during the early years of the Cold War as a troop carrier base...

 from 1953 to 1959.

External links

• Lakeland Aviation, Inc. (fixed base operator
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  for Ardmore Municipal Airport)
• Carter County water treatment constructed at airport (July 16, 2004 press release)
• http://www.brightok.net/~gsimmons/