Halifax–Northampton Regional Airport | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Owner | Halifax–Northampton Regional Airport Authority | ||||||||||
Serves | Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 145 ft / 44 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 36°19′47″N 077°38′07″W / 36.32972°N 77.63528°W | ||||||||||
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Halifax–Northampton Regional Airport (ICAO: KIXA, FAA LID: IXA) is a public use airport located eight nautical miles (9 mi, 15 km) south of the central business district of Roanoke Rapids, a city in Halifax County, North Carolina, United States.[1] It is owned by the Halifax–Northampton Regional Airport Authority.[1] This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[2]
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned IXA by the FAA[1] but has no designation from the IATA[3] (which assigned IXA to Singerbhil Airport in Agartala, India).[4] The airport's ICAO identifier is KIXA.[5]
Halifax–Northampton Regional Airport covers an area of 797 acres (323 ha) at an elevation of 145 feet (44 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 2/20 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,500 by 101 feet (1,676 x 31 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending July 17, 2009, the airport had 2,900 aircraft operations, an average of 241 per month: 90% general aviation and 10% military. At that time there were 20 aircraft based at this airport: 90% single-engine and 10% multi-engine.[1]