Randall Airport is a public use

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in Orange County, New York,

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. It is owned by Aerodrome Dev Corp and is located two nautical miles (3.74 km) southeast of the

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of the City of Middletown. According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007–2011, it is categorized as a '' reliever airport''. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and

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, this airport is assigned 06N by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.

Facilities and aircraft

Randall Airport covers an area of at an

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of above

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. It has one

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designated 08/26 with an asphalt surface measuring . For the 12-month period ending August 6, 2006, the airport had 22,504 aircraft operations, an average of 27 per day: 100%

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with a few

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s. At that time there were 43 aircraft based at this airport: 47% single-

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, 44% gliders and 9% ultralights.

Accidents and incidents

On May 5, 2018, an Aeronca 7AC crashed off Dolsontown Road, in the nearby town of Wawayanda shortly after taking off from Randall. The pilot, Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, was killed; the other passenger, a flight instructor, survived with injuries that were not life-threatening.

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Aerial photo as of 23 April 1994
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. * * {{US-airport-minor, 06N Airports in New York (state) Transportation buildings and structures in Orange County, New York

Facilities and aircraft

Accidents and incidents

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