Tri-County Airport is a public-use airport

Airport

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 located six nautical mile

Nautical mile

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s (11.1 km

Kilometre

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) northeast of the central business district

Central business district

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 of the city of Bonifay

Bonifay, Florida

Bonifay is a city in Holmes County, Florida, United States. Bonifay was given its name from a prominent family that had a brick making factory in Pensacola, FL. Frank Bonifay, the man behind the town's name, bought a stake in the L%N, now CSX, Railroad. As W. D...

 in Holmes County

Holmes County, Florida

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, Florida

Florida

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, United States

United States

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. The airport is publicly owned.

Facilities and aircraft

Tri-County Airport covers an area of 300 acres (121.4 ha) at an elevation

Elevation

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 of 85 feet (25.9 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway

Runway

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 designated 01/19 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,000 by 75 feet (1,219 x 22.9 m).

For the 12-month period ending December 17, 2009, the airport had 28,376 aircraft operations, an average of 78 per day: 70% military

Military aviation

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, 30% general aviation

General aviation

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, and less than 1% air taxi

Air taxi

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. At that time there were 11 aircraft based at this airport: 10% multi-engine

Aircraft engine

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and 90% single-engine.