Asheboro Regional Airport (ICAO: KHBI, FAA LID: HBI) is a city-owned public-use airport located six nautical miles (11 km) southwest of the central business district of Asheboro, a city in Randolph County, North Carolina, United States.[1] It was formerly known as Asheboro Municipal Airport.
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Owner | City of Asheboro | ||||||||||
Serves | Asheboro, North Carolina | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 671 ft / 205 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 35°39′16″N 079°53′41″W / 35.65444°N 79.89472°W | ||||||||||
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Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility is assigned HBI by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA[2] (which assigned HBI to Harbour Island in the Bahamas[3]).
Asheboro Regional Airport covers an area of 454 acres (184 ha) at an elevation of 671 feet (205 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 3/21 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,501 by 100 feet (1,677 x 30 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending July 7, 2008, the airport had 15,500 aircraft operations, an average of 42 per day: 97% general aviation and 3% military. At that time there were 45 aircraft based at this airport: 78% single-engine, 20% multi-engine and 2% jet.[1]