Kayenta Airport

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Coordinates: 36°42′54″N 110°13′55″W / 36.715, -110.23194

Kayenta Airport
IATA: MVM – ICAO: none – FAA: 0V7
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		The Navajo Nation
Serves		Kayenta, Arizona
Elevation AMSL		5,710 ft / 1,740 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
5/23	7,140	2,176	Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations			2,000
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Kayenta Airport (IATA: MVM, FAA LID: 0V7) is a public-use general aviation airport located two miles (3 km) southeast of the central business district of Kayenta, in Navajo County, Arizona, United States.^[1]

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 584 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2005 and 1,535 enplanements in 2006.^[2] According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007-2011, Kayenta is a general aviation airport (the commercial service category requires at least 2,500 passenger boardings per year).^[3]

This is one of six airports owned by the Navajo Nation; the other five being Chinle Airport (E91), Tuba City Airport (T03) and Window Rock Airport (RQE) in Arizona, plus Crownpoint Airport (0E8) and Shiprock Airport (5V5) in New Mexico.^[4]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Kayenta Airport covers an area of 140 acres (57 ha) and contains one asphalt paved runway designated 5/23 and measuring 7,140 x 75 ft. (2,176 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending May 4, 2007, the airport had 2,000 aircraft operations, an average of 5 per day: 75% general aviation and 25% air taxi.^[1]