Hardwick Field
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Hardwick Field , also known as Cleveland Municipal Airport, is a public airport
Airport
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 located four miles (6 km) northeast of the central business district
Central business district
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 of Cleveland
Cleveland, Tennessee
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, in Bradley County, Tennessee
Tennessee
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, United States
United States
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. It is owned by the City of Cleveland.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier
Location identifier
A location identifier is a symbolic representation for the name and the location of an airport, navigation aid, or weather station, and is used for manned air traffic control facilities in air traffic control, telecommunications, computer programming, weather reports, and related services.-ICAO...

 for the FAA
Federal Aviation Administration
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 and IATA
International Air Transport Association
The International Air Transport Association is an international industry trade group of airlines headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where the International Civil Aviation Organization is also headquartered. The executive offices are at the Geneva Airport in SwitzerlandIATA's mission is to...

, Hardwick Field is assigned HDI by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.

Facilities and aircraft

Hardwick Field covers an area of 103 acres (41.7 ha) which contains one asphalt
Asphalt
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 paved runway
Runway
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 (3/21) measuring 3,300 x 75 ft (1,006 x 23 m).

For the 12-month period ending March 4, 1999, the airport had 12,197 aircraft operations, an average of 33 per day: 93% general aviation
General aviation
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, 7% air taxi
Air taxi
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 and <1% military. There are 40 aircraft based at this airport: 60% single-engine, 38% multi-engine and 3% jet.

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