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Foothills Regional Airport

Airport

35°49′13″N 081°36′41″W / 35.82028°N 81.61139°W / 35.82028; -81.61139 (Foothills Regional Airport)Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
3/21	5,500	1,676	Asphalt

Statistics (2005)

Aircraft operations	17,000

Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Foothills Regional Airport (formerly Morganton-Lenoir Airport) (IATA: MRN, ICAO: KMRN, FAA LID: MRN) is a public airport located nine miles south of the City of Lenoir, NC, and eight miles northeast of the City of Morganton, NC. It is owned by the Foothills Regional Airport Authority.^[1]

Facilities and Aircraft

The Foothills Regional Airport covers an area of 1,170 acres (473 ha) and contains one grooved asphalt paved runway: 3/21 measuring 5,500 ft × 75 ft (1,676 m × 23 m). For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2005, the airport had 17,000 aircraft operations, an average of 46 per day: 97% general aviation and 3% military. There were 74 aircraft based on the field at that time.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c FAA Airport Form 5010 for MRN PDF, effective 2005-08-31

City of Morganton

Topics

History: Joara; Fort San Juan; Overmountain Men

Outdoors

Pisgah National Forest

Bodies of water: Catawba River; Lake James; Lake Rhodhiss; Linville Falls

Landforms: Brown Mountain; Linville Gorge Wilderness; Little Chestnut Mountain; Table Rock

Parks: Lake James State Park; South Mountains State Park

Trails: Fonta Flora State Trail; Wilderness Gateway State Trail; Overmountain Victory

Historic places

Buildings: Avery Avenue School; Alphonse Calhoun Avery House; Bellevue; Burke County Courthouse; Creekside; U. S. B. Dale's Market; Dunavant Cotton Manufacturing Company; Gaither House; Garrou-Morganton Full-Fashioned Hosiery Mills; John Alexander Lackey House; Magnolia Place; Mountain View; North Carolina School for the Deaf: Main Building; Quaker Meadows; Dr. Joseph Bennett Riddle House; Swan Ponds; Tate House; Franklin Pierce Tate House; Western North Carolina Insane Asylum

Districts: Avery Avenue Historic District; Broughton Hospital Historic District; Jonesboro Historic District; Morganton Downtown Historic District; North Carolina School for the Deaf Historic District; North Green Street-Bouchelle Street Historic District; South King Street Historic District; West Union Street Historic District; White Street-Valdese Avenue Historic District

Other: Gaston Chapel, Hunting Creek Railroad Bridge; Quaker Meadows Cemetery

Transportation

Foothills Regional Airport

Roads: Blue Ridge Parkway; Interstate 40; U.S. Route 64; U.S. Route 70

Healthcare

Broughton Hospital

UNC Health Blue Ridge

Education

Colleges: Western Piedmont Community College; Foothills Higher Education Center

Public schools: NCSSM Morganton; Freedom High School; Robert Logan Patton High School; Table Rock Middle School; Liberty Middle School; Walter R. Johnson Middle School; Glen Alpine Elementary School; Mull Elementary School; Mountain Crest Elementary School; Chesterfield Elementary School; W. A. Young Elementary School; Burke Alternative School; College Street Academy; Salem Elementary School; Forest Hill Elementary School; Oak Hill Elementary School; Burke Middle College