West Georgia Regional Airport , also known as O. V. Gray Field, is a public use airport

Airport

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 located five nautical mile

Nautical mile

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s (9 km

Kilometre

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) northwest of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Carrollton

Carrollton, Georgia

Carrollton is a city in West Georgia, United States, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 24,388...

, in Carroll County

Carroll County, Georgia

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, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

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, United States

United States

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. It is owned by the West Georgia Airport Authority.

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

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, this airport is assigned CTJ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.

Facilities and aircraft

The airport covers an area of 396 acres (160.3 ha) at an elevation

Elevation

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 of 1,161 feet (354 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt

Asphalt

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 paved runway

Runway

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 designated 17/35 which measures 5,503 by 100 feet (1,677 x 30 m).

For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2008, the airport had 24,500 aircraft operations, an average of 67 per day: 98% general aviation

General aviation

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 and 2% military

Military aviation

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. At that time there were 43 aircraft based at this airport: 91% single-engine

Aircraft engine

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, 5% multi-engine, 2% jet

Jet aircraft

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 and 2% helicopter

Helicopter

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