Walker County Airport

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Coordinates: 33°54′07″N 087°18′51″W / 33.90194, -87.31417

Walker County Airport Bevill Field
IATA: none – ICAO: KJFX – FAA: JFX
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Walker County Commission
Serves		Jasper, Alabama
Elevation AMSL		482 ft / 147 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
9/27	5,003	1,525	Asphalt
Statistics (2000)
Aircraft operations			33,616
Based aircraft			55
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Walker County Airport (ICAO: KJFX, FAA LID: JFX, formerly L02), also known as Bevill Field, is a public airport located five miles (8 km) northwest of the central business district of Jasper, a city in Walker County, Alabama, United States. It is owned by the Walker County Commission.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Walker County Airport is assigned JFX by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[2]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Walker County Airport covers an area of 297 acres (120 ha) which contains one runway (9/27) with a 5,003 x 100 ft. (1,525 x 30 m) asphalt pavement. For the 12-month period ending April 5, 2000, the airport had 33,616 aircraft operations, an average of 92 per day: 99.7% general aviation and 0.3% military. At that time there were 55 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single-engine, 9% multi-engine and 4% jet.^[1]