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Oneonta Municipal Airport

airport in New York, United States of America

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ7093721 ↗
Source-derived summary

Oneonta Municipal Airport (IATA: ONH, FAA LID: N66) is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) north of the central business district of Oneonta, a city in Otsego County, New York, United States. The airport is owned by the City of Oneonta. It once had scheduled air service on Mohawk Airlines, formerly known as Catskill Airways.

Facilities and aircraft

Oneonta Municipal Airport covers an area of 310 acres (130 ha) at an elevation of 1,763 feet (537 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 6/24 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,200 by 75 feet (1,280 x 23 m).

For the 12-month period ending February 21, 2008, the airport had 21,600 aircraft operations, an average of 59 per day: 86% general aviation, 14% air taxi, and <1% military. At that time there were 9 aircraft based at this airport: 67% single-engine, 22% multi-engine and 11% helicopter.

See also

List of airports in New York

References

External links

"Oneonta Municipal Airport (N66)" (PDF).

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Oneonta Municipal Airport” as airport in New York, United States of America. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Oneonta, Municipal and Airport.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Oneonta, Municipal and Airport providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7093721. Authority coordinates are 42.525, -75.064. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oneonta Municipal Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.