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John C. Tune Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority | ||||||||||
| Serves | Nashville, Tennessee | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 501 ft / 153 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°10′56″N086°53′12″W / 36.18222°N 86.88667°W /36.18222; -86.88667 | ||||||||||
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| Source:Federal Aviation Administration[1] | |||||||||||
John C. Tune Airport (ICAO:KJWN,FAALID:JWN) is a publicairport located in the western portion of the city ofNashville inDavidson County,Tennessee,United States. It is owned by theMetropolitan Nashville Airport Authority,[1] located approximately one mile (1.6 km) off ofBriley Parkway in the Cockrill Bend area. It is aClass D airport.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letterlocation identifier for theFAA andIATA, John C. Tune Airport is assignedJWN by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.[2]
Tune Airport is named in honor of John Childress Tune, a Nashville attorney, civic leader, longtime aviation enthusiast and one of the principal developers of the modern aviation authority concept. He was also a former chairman of the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority. Planning for the construction of Tune Airport began in 1965 under Nashville's former Department of Aviation as a "reliever airport" designed to provide additional capacity atNashville International Airport (Berry Field). The Department of Aviation received a state grant to purchase the Cockrill Bend property, and construction for the airport began in 1983. The airport opened in July 1986. The current terminal was built in 1995 and renovated in 2015.
OnMarch 3, 2020, the airport suffered significant tornado damage to its terminal and other buildings, including 17 hangars on the property; more than 90 aircraft parked at the airport—including charter jets, smaller airplanes, and a newsgathering helicopter operated byCBS affiliateWTVF (channel 5)—were destroyed.[3]
John C. Tune Airport covers an area of 374 acres (151 ha) at anelevation of 501 feet (153 m) abovemean sea level. It has oneasphalt pavedrunway designated 2/20 which measures 6,001 by 100 feet (1,829. x 30 m).[1] For the 12-month period ending August 3, 2023, the airport had 64,000 aircraft operations, an average of 175 per day: 96%general aviation, 4%air taxi and <1%military. At that time there were 190 aircraft based at this airport: 136 single-engine, 26 multi-engine, 17jet and 11helicopter.[1]
Corporate Flight Management providesFixed-Base Operator services for the airport. JWN has 120 T-hangars, plus 21,000 square feet (2,000 m2) and 19,000 square feet (1,800 m2) box hangars that include offices. Aircraft parking and apron space totals 360,000 square feet (33,000 m2), which can accommodate 55 tie-down aircraft. The airport has a precision instrument landing approach into Runway 20. Both Runways 2 and 20 have non-precision instrument approaches.
JWN is financially self-supporting, although some improvements are made with the assistance of state and federal grant money.
John C. Tune Airport provides:
John C. Tune's terminal received a significant renovation that was completed in 2005. The 3,600-square-foot (330 m2) updated terminal includes a pilot's lounge, conference room, flight planning room, vending area and pilot supply shop. Additional landscaping and parking renovations were completed in 2009.
