Pine Hill Airport is a public use

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located five

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s (6 mi, 9 km) southwest of

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, a village in

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, United States. The airport property is owned by Haines Family Farm and leased by the Vintage Aircraft Group.

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Pine Hill Airport covers an area of at an

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of 669 feet (204 m) above

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. It has one

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designated 10/28 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,659 by 36 feet (810 x 11 m). For the 12-month period ending October 17, 2007, the airport had 6,500 aircraft operations, an average of 17 per day: 92%

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and 8%

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s include: * GVQ –

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(10 nm SE) * 9G3 – Akron Airport (13 nm SW) * 7G0 – Ledgedale Airpark (16 nm E) * 5G0 – Le Roy Airport (19 nm SE) * 0G0 – North Buffalo Suburban Airport (19 nm W)

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Pine Hill Airport webcam

Aerial image as of March 1995
from

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