Yazoo County Airport is five miles northwest of

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in unincorporated

Yazoo County, Mississippi Yazoo County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 28,065. The county seat is Yazoo City. It is named for the Yazoo River, which forms its western border. Its name is said to come from a ...

. It is owned by the County of Yazoo.Poplarville, Hattiesburg among airports receiving grants
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. March 12, 2010. Retrieved on September 23, 2010. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a ''

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'' facility. In 2010 the airport got a $76,931

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grant for apron lighting. The airport has a lighted runway that was built in 1993 and upgraded in 2000. As of 2001 the airport houses two agricultural businesses and a repair service. Lynne W. Jeter of the ''

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'' said in 2001 that the county airport "may have played an important role in landing the multi-phase federal prison project that is currently under expansion," referring to the

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Federal Correctional Complex, Yazoo City.

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Yazoo County Airport covers 300 acres (121 ha) at an

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of 105 feet (32 m). Its one

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, 17/35, is 5,001 by 100 feet (1,524 x 30 m) asphalt. In the year ending March 6, 2012 the airport had 12,800 aircraft operations, average 35 per day: 99%

and 1% military. Ten single-engine aircraft were then based at the airport.

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