Craig Municipal Airport
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Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport is a public airport
Airport
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 located eight miles (13 km) east of the central business district
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 of Jacksonville
Jacksonville, Florida
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, in Duval County
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, Florida
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, United States
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. It is owned by the Jacksonville Aviation Authority
Jacksonville Aviation Authority
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.

This mid-sized general aviation
General aviation
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 airport handles personal aircraft and small commuter planes. The entrance is located along St. Johns Bluff Road north of Atlantic Boulevard, although it also borders Atlantic Blvd to the south. The airport has a control tower and handles 400-500 aircraft operations daily. It previously served as a joint civil-military airport hosting an Army Aviation Support Facility and helicopter units of the Florida Army National Guard
Florida Army National Guard
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 prior to their relocation to nearby Cecil Field
Cecil Field
Cecil Airport is a public joint civil-military airport located in Jacksonville, a city in Duval County, Florida, United States. The airport is owned by the Jacksonville Aviation Authority and services military aircraft, corporate aircraft, general aviation, and air cargo. The Florida Army National...

 following the latter facility's inactivation as a naval air station
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 in 1999.

The United States Navy
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's Blue Angels
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performed their first airshow
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 at Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport on June 15, 1946.

Facilities and aircraft

Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport covers an area of 1342 acres (543.1 ha) which contains two asphalt
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 paved runway
Runway
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s: 5/23 measuring 4,004 x 120ft and 14/32 measuring 3,998 x 120ft.

For the 12-month period ending October 20, 1999, the airport had 158,769 aircraft operations, an average of 434 per day: 86% general aviation
General aviation
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, 9% military and 5% air taxi
Air taxi
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. There are 319 aircraft based at this airport: 57% single-engine, 27% multi-engine, 7% helicopter
Helicopter
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, 6% military and 4% jet (12).

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