Winchester Municipal Airport Explained

Winchester Municipal Airport
Icao:KBGF
Faa:BGF
Type:Public
Owner:City of Winchester
City-Served:Winchester, Tennessee
Elevation-F:979
Elevation-M:298
Coordinates:35.1775°N -86.0661°W
Website:winchester-airport.com
Pushpin Map:USA Tennessee#USA
Pushpin Mapsize:200
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of airport in Tennessee
Pushpin Label:KBGF
R1-Number:18/36
R1-Length-F:5,002
R1-Length-M:1,525
R1-Surface:Asphalt
Stat-Year:2022
Stat1-Header:Aircraft operations
Stat1-Data:13,000
Stat2-Header:Based aircraft
Stat2-Data:21
Footnotes:Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Winchester Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district of Winchester, a city in Franklin County, Tennessee, United States.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned BGF by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA[2] (which assigned BGF to Bangui M'Poko International Airport in Bangui, Central African Republic[3]).

Facilities and aircraft

Winchester Municipal Airport covers an area of 134acres at an elevation of 979 feet (298 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 18/36 which measures 5,002 by 75 feet (1,525 x 23 m).

For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2022, the airport had 13,000 aircraft operations, an average of 14 per day: 92% general aviation, 6% air taxi and 2% military. At that time there were 21 aircraft based at this airport: 17 single-engine, 3 multi-engine, 1 helicopter and 0 jet.

Accidents and incidents

See also

References

  1. , effective 2009-05-07.
  2. http://gc.kls2.com/airport/KBGF Great Circle Mapper: KBGF - Winchester, Tennessee
  3. http://gc.kls2.com/airport/BGF Great Circle Mapper: BGF / FEFF - Bangui, Central African Republic
  4. Web site: Accident Cessna 441 Conquest II N44776, 07 Feb 2021.
  5. Web site: Two killed in Keith Springs Mountain plane crash.

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