John C. Tune Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority | ||||||||||
| Serves | Nashville, Tennessee | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 495 ft / 151 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°10′56″N 086°53′12″W / 36.18222°N 86.88667°WCoordinates: 36°10′56″N 086°53′12″W / 36.18222°N 86.88667°W | ||||||||||
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| Aircraft operations | 72,998 |
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| Based aircraft | 165 |
John C. Tune Airport (ICAO: KJWN, FAA LID: JWN) is a public airport located in the western portion of the city of Nashville in Davidson County, Tennessee, United States. It is owned by the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, located approximately one mile (1.6 km) off of Briley Parkway in the Cockrill Bend area. It is a Class E airport.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned JWN by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.
Tune Airport is named in honor of John Childress Tune, a Nashville attorney, civic leader, longtime aviation enthusiast and one of the principal developers of the modern aviation authority concept. He was also a former chairman of the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority. Planning for the construction of Tune Airport began in 1965 under Nashville's former Department of Aviation as a "reliever airport" designed to provide additional capacity at Nashville International Airport (Berry Field). The Department of Aviation received a state grant to purchase the Cockrill Bend property, and construction for the airport began in 1983. John C. Tune opened in July 1986. The current terminal was built in 1995 and renovated in 2015.
John C. Tune Airport covers an area of 390 acres (160 ha) at an elevation of 495 feet (151 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 2/20 which measures 6,001 by 100 feet (1,829. x 30 m). The runway is long enough to serve corporate jets such as Lear Jets. For the 12-month period ending March 6, 2009, the airport had 72,998 aircraft operations, an average of 199 per day: 70% general aviation, 29% air taxi and <1% military. At that time there were 165 aircraft based at this airport: 79% single-engine, 16% multi-engine, 3% jet and 2% helicopter.
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