Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport , formerly known as Craig Municipal Airport, is a public

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located east of the

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Jacksonville Jacksonville ( ) is the most populous city proper in the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of North Florida, northeastern Florida. It is the county seat of Duval County, Florida, Duval County, with which the City of Jacksonv ...

, in Duval County,

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. It is owned by the

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. This mid-sized

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airport handles personal aircraft and small commuter planes. The entrance is located along St. Johns Bluff Road north of Atlantic Blvd, although it also borders Atlantic Boulevard to the south. The airport has a control tower and handles 400-500 aircraft operations daily. It previously served as a joint civil-military airport hosting an Army Aviation Support Facility and helicopter units of the

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prior to their relocation to nearby

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following the latter facility's inactivation as a

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in 1999. The

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's ''

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'' performed their first

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at Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport on June 15, 1946.

Facilities and aircraft

Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport covers an area of which contains two

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paved

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s: 5/23 measuring 4,004 x 120 ft and 14/32 measuring 4,008 x 120 ft. Runway 5/23 was repaved during the summer of 2011. In addition to filling cracks and adding a 120- x 150-foot

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, the entire runway was surfed with a 0.5-inch leveling course and a 1.5 inch

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surface course. In January 2012, the paving project was awarded the inaugural Ray Brown Airport Pavement Award by the National Asphalt Pavement Association, recognizing it as the highest quality airport asphalt pavement project completed during 2011. For the 12-month period ending February 7, 2018, the airport had 158,769 aircraft operations, an average of 435 per day: 85%

, 9% military and 5%

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. There were at the time 203 aircraft based at this airport: 127 single-engine, 45 multi-engine, 8

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, 18 military and 5 jet. The airport has 2 FBOs on the field, JAX Executive Jet Center and Sky Harbor Aviation. The JAA board unanimously voted to approve a ground lease agreement with Amazon Services LLC in July 2023 to build a 181,000-square-foot warehouse on 79 acres. Jacksonville Executive Craig Airport's current CEO, Mark VanLoh, said Amazon is its highest paying tenant at Craig Airport, which is in East Arlington at northeast Atlantic Boulevard and St. Johns Bluff Road. In October 2020, the JAA conducted a public solicitation through a request for interest to identify parties to lease and develop the available nonaeronautical property. Seefried Development Properties Inc, on behalf of Amazon Services LLC, is developing the more than $40 million warehouse and distribution facility. Residents and landowners in the area objected to potential traffic congestion and construction of a roadway that required traffic intersection improvements. Those issues are resolved or still in review. Many residents in the area feel the addition of the Amazon warehouse is going to drastically change the overall atmosphere of the community. Many believe the decision to lease and develop to one of the largest corporations in the world does not align with the original values of the airport and some say they are choosing profit over people. Development of an Amazon.com last-mile distribution center at Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport is “moving along quite rapidly,” Jacksonville Aviation Authority CEO Mark VanLoh told the JAA board March 25. File:CRG Jacksonville FL Executive airport hangar.jpg, CRG Jacksonville FL Executive airport hangar File:Jacksonville executive airport lobby area.jpg, Jacksonville executive airport lobby area File:Jacksonville Executive airport lounge from tarmac.jpg, Jacksonville Executive airport lounge from tarmac

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External links

Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport
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Facilities and aircraft

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