Ellington Airport (Tennessee)

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Coordinates: 35°30′25″N 086°48′14″W / 35.50694, -86.80389

Ellington Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KLUG – FAA: LUG
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of Lewisburg
Serves		Lewisburg, Tennessee
Elevation AMSL		717 ft / 219 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
2/20	5,002	1,525	Asphalt
Statistics (1998)
Aircraft operations			17,050
Based aircraft			33
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Ellington Airport (ICAO: KLUG, FAA LID: LUG) is a city-owned public-use airport located three miles (5 km) north of the central business district of Lewisburg, a city in Marshall County, Tennessee, United States.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Ellington Airport is assigned LUG by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA^[2] (which assigned LUG to Agno Airport in Lugano, Switzerland^[3]).

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Ellington Airport covers an area of 200 acres (81 ha) and contains one asphalt paved runway designated 2/20 which measures 5,002 x 75 ft. (1,525 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending July 23, 1998, the airport had 17,050 aircraft operations, an average of 46 per day: 91% general aviation, 9% air taxi and <1% military. At that time there were 33 aircraft based at this airport: 79% single-engine, 18% multi-engine and 3% ultralight.^[1]