Hackettstown Airport is a public-use airport

Airport

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 located in the Beattystown

Beattystown, New Jersey

Beattystown is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Mansfield Township, in Warren County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 3,223....

 area of Mansfield Township

Mansfield Township, Warren County, New Jersey

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 6,653 people, 2,334 households, and 1,750 families residing in the township. The population density was 222.3 people per square mile . There were 2,415 housing units at an average density of 80.7 per square mile...

, Warren County

Warren County, New Jersey

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, New Jersey

New Jersey

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, United States

United States

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, three nautical miles (5.56 km) southwest of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Hackettstown

Hackettstown, New Jersey

Hackettstown is a town in Warren County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town population was 9,724. The town is located in the eastern most region of the Lehigh Valley....

. The airport is privately owned. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier

Location identifier

A location identifier is a symbolic representation for the name and the location of an airport, navigation aid, or weather station, and is used for manned air traffic control facilities in air traffic control, telecommunications, computer programming, weather reports, and related services.-ICAO...

 for the FAA

Federal Aviation Administration

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 and IATA

International Air Transport Association

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, this airport is assigned N05 by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA

Facilities and aircraft

Hackettstown Airport covers an area of 65 acres (26.3 ha) at an elevation

Elevation

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 of 670 feet (204 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway

Runway

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 designated 05/23 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,200 by 50 feet (671 x 15 m).

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 19,000 aircraft operations, an average of 52 per day: 100% general aviation

General aviation

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. At that time there were 36 aircraft based at this airport: 100% single-engine

Aircraft engine

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External links

• Aerial photo as of 13 April 1992 from USGS The National Map