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Searcy Municipal Airport

airport in Arkansas, 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 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ7441751
Source-derived summary

Searcy Regional Airport (IATA: SRC, ICAO: KSRC, FAA LID: SRC) is a city-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (4 mi, 6 km) south of the central business district of Searcy, in White County, Arkansas, United States.

This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2019–2023, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.

Facilities and aircraft

Searcy Regional Airport covers an area of 330 acres (134 ha) at an elevation of 265 feet (81 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 1/19 with an asphalt surface measuring 6,008 by 100 feet (1,831 x 30 m).

For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2020, the airport had 31,560 aircraft operations, an average of 86 per day: 95% general aviation, 3% air taxi and 2% military. In December 2020, there were 101 aircraft based at this airport: 79 single-engine, 12 multi-engine, 3 jet and 7 helicopter.

Editorial summary

“Searcy Municipal Airport” enters the record as airport in Arkansas, United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Searcy, Municipal and Airport can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 2023, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Searcy, Municipal and Airport.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Searcy Municipal Airport” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Searcy, Municipal and Airport provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7441751. Authority coordinates are 35.211, -91.737. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2019, 2023 and 2020.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Searcy Municipal Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Searcy Municipal Airport primary sources, Searcy Municipal Airport archive and Searcy research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Searcy Municipal Airport”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Searcy 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.