Billy Mitchell Airport

Billy Mitchell Airport
Airport terminal, May 2009
IATA: HNC ICAO: KHSE FAA LID: HSE
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	National Park Service
Serves	Hatteras, North Carolina
Location	Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Elevation AMSL	17 ft / 5 m
Coordinates	35°13′58″N 075°37′04″W / 35.23278°N 75.61778°W / 35.23278; -75.61778Coordinates: 35°13′58″N 075°37′04″W / 35.23278°N 75.61778°W / 35.23278; -75.61778
Website	BillyMitchellAirport.com
Map
HSE Show map of North Carolina HSE Show map of the US Location of airport in North Carolina / United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 7/25 3,002 915 Asphalt
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2016) 9,200
Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Billy Mitchell Airport (IATA: HNC, ICAO: KHSE, FAA LID: HSE) is a public use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) east of the central business district of Hatteras, in Dare County, North Carolina, United States. The airport is located in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore and is owned by the National Park Service. It is named after United States Army Air Service General Billy Mitchell, and is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Billy Mitchell Airport is assigned HSE by the FAA and HNC by the IATA. The airport's ICAO identifier is KHSE.