Perry-Houston County Airport is a public airport

Airport

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 located four miles (6 km) northwest of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Perry

Perry, Georgia

Perry is a city in Houston county in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is part of the Warner Robins, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 9,600 at the 2000 census. This town is the county seat of Houston County...

, a city in Houston County

Houston County, Georgia

Houston County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created on May 15, 1821, as one of five huge counties, later reduced in the formation of Bibb, Crawford, Pike, Macon and Peach counties. As of the 2000 census, the population is 110,765...

, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

, United States

United States

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. It is owned by the Perry-Houston County Airport Authority. The airport is also 10 miles (16.1 km) south of Warner Robins, Georgia

Warner Robins, Georgia

Warner Robins is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia, located primarily in Houston County with a small portion in Peach County. The city has its own metropolitan statistical area . As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 48,804...

. It is used for general aviation

General aviation

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, mainly flight training.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier

Location identifier

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 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...

, Perry-Houston County Airport is assigned PXE by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.

Central Georgia Aviation is the fixed base operator

Fixed base operator

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 (FBO) located on the field. They provide a number of services to include: airport management, aviation fuel, hangar leasing/sales, passenger terminal and lounge, flight training,aircraft rental, aircraft maintenance, avionics sales and service, aircraft parts and aviation accessories.

Facilities and aircraft

Perry-Houston County Airport covers an area of 465 acres (188.2 ha) and contains one asphalt

Asphalt

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 paved runway designated 18/36 which measures 5,002 x 100 ft (1,525 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending January 31, 2006, the airport had 22,000 general aviation

General aviation

General aviation is one of the two categories of civil aviation. It refers to all flights other than military and scheduled airline and regular cargo flights, both private and commercial. General aviation flights range from gliders and powered parachutes to large, non-scheduled cargo jet flights...

 aircraft operations, an average of 60 per day. There are 67 aircraft based at this airport: 91% single-engine, 6% multi-engine and 3% helicopter

Helicopter

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External links

• Perry-Houston County Airport (PXE) at Georgia DOT website