Maben Airport is a public-use airport

Airport

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 located in Prattsville

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, in Greene County

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, New York

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, United States

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. It is privately owned by Dr. Wayne Maben, M.D. and was founded in 1948 by his father, Robert Maben. It is currently closed indefinitely.

Facilities and aircraft

Maben Airport covers an area of 5 acres (2 ha) which contains one turf & gravel runway

Runway

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 (3/21) measuring 4,000 x 50 ft (1,219 x 15 m). For the 12-month period ending August 2, 2002, the airport had 3,650 aircraft operations: 96% general aviation

General aviation

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and 4% military. During that period there were 10 aircraft based at this airport, 100% of which were single-engine.