Roscoe Turner Airport

Roscoe Turner Airport
Roscoe Turner Airport
AMSL;	425 ft / 130 m
Coordinates	34°54′54″N 088°36′13″W / 34.91500°N 88.60361°W
Runways
Statistics (2009)
Aircraft operations
Aircraft operations	16,400
Based aircraft	16
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Roscoe Turner Airport (IATA: CRX, ICAO: KCRX, FAA LID: CRX) is a public-use airport located four nautical miles (7 km) southwest of the central business district of Corinth, a city in Alcorn County, Mississippi, United States. It is owned by the City of Corinth and Alcorn County.^[1] This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.^[2]

Facilities and aircraft

Roscoe Turner Airport covers an area of 542

mean sea level. It has one runway designated 18/36 with an asphalt surface measuring 6,500 by 100 feet (1,981 x 30 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending October 29, 2009, the airport had 16,400 aircraft operations, an average of 44 per day: 98%

On December 24, 2015 a single engine plane, registered to North Mississippi Pulmonology Clinic in Booneville crashed onto County Road 504 just before 10:30am. Four people were on board the aircraft. One was flown to a hospital in Memphis and the other three were sent to a local hospital in Corinth for observation.^[3]