Facilities and Aircraft
Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport covers an area of 832 acres (337 ha) at an elevation of 874 feet (266 m) above mean sea level. It has three asphalt paved runways: 17/35 measuring 6,500 x 150 ft (1,981 x 46 m), 5/23 measuring 3,436 x 100 ft (1,047 x 30 m) and 9/27 measuring 2,800 x 60 ft (853 x 18 m).
In its early days, the airport had many different runway configurations. For example, present-day taxiways delta and alpha were originally runways.
In 2009 the airport had 50,697 aircraft operations (down from 89,502 in 2006), an average of 139 per day: 80% general aviation, 18% air taxi, 2% scheduled commercial and < 1% military. At that time, there were 143 aircraft based at this airport: 91% single-engine, 8% multi-engine, and 1% jet.
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