{{Short description|Airport in Nevada, United States}} {{Use American English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox airport | name = Carson Airport | nativename = Carson City Airport | image = Carson Airport Logo.jpg | image2 = Carson City Airport - panoramio.jpg | IATA = CSN | ICAO = KCXP | FAA = CXP | type = Public | owner = | operator = Carson City Airport Authority | city-served = Carson City, Nevada | location = | elevation-f = 4,704 | elevation-m = 1,434 | coordinates = {{coord|39|11|32|N|119|44|04|W|region:US-NV_type:airport}} | website = http://flycarsoncity.com | pushpin_map = USA Nevada#USA | pushpin_relief = yes | pushpin_map_caption = Location of airport in Nevada / United States | pushpin_label = '''CXP''' | pushpin_label_position = right | r1-number = 09/27 | r1-length-f = 6,101 | r1-length-m = 1,860 | r1-surface = Asphalt | stat-year = 2022 | stat1-header = Aircraft operations (year ending 6/30/2022) | stat1-data = 86,088 | stat2-header = Based aircraft (2022) | stat2-data = 285 | footnotes = Source: FAA<ref name="FAA">{{FAA-airport|ID=CXP|use=PU|own=PU|site=13042.*A}}. Federal Aviation Administration. July 13, 2023.</ref> and airport web site<ref name="Airport">[http://carsoncity-airport.com/ Carson City Airport], official site</ref> }}
'''Carson Airport'''<ref name="FAA" /><ref name="NDOT">{{cite web |url= http://www.nevadadot.com/About_NDOT/NDOT_Divisions/Planning/Aviation/Documents/Airport_Directory/CXP.pdf |title= Diagram of Carson Airport (CXP) |access-date= 2014-06-14 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120717062933/http://www.nevadadot.com/About_NDOT/NDOT_Divisions/Planning/Aviation/Documents/Airport_Directory/CXP.pdf |archive-date= 2012-07-17 |url-status= dead }} {{small|(29.6 KB)}}. Nevada Department of Transportation. April 2007.</ref> {{airport codes|CSN|KCXP|CXP}} (Carson City Airport) is three miles northeast of Carson City,<ref name="FAA" /> the capital of Nevada, United States. It is operated by the Carson City Airport Authority.<ref name="Airport" /> The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013 categorized it as a ''reliever airport''.
Many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but this airport is '''CXP''' to the FAA<ref name="FAA" /> and '''CSN''' to the IATA<ref name="GCR">[http://gc.kls2.com/airport/CSN Great Circle Mapper: CSN / KCXP - Carson City, Nevada (Carson Airport)]</ref> (which assigned '''CXP''' to Tunggul Wulung Airport in Java, Indonesia).<ref>[http://gc.kls2.com/airport/CXP Great Circle Mapper: CXP / WIHL - Cilacap, Java, Indonesia (Tunggul Wulung Airport)]</ref>
== Facilities== [[Image:Grumman Goose Alaska Island Air.jpg|thumb|left|Grumman Goose amphibian at Carson Airport]] Carson Airport covers {{convert|632|acre|ha}} at an elevation of 4,704 feet (1,434 m). Its runway (9/27) is 6,101 by 75 feet (1,860 x 23 m).<ref name="FAA" />
In the year ending June 30, 2022 the airport had 86,088 aircraft operations, average 236 per day: 90% general aviation, 9% air taxi, and 1% military. 285 aircraft were then based at this airport: 199 single-engine, 36 multi-engine, 20 jet, 17 helicopter, 5 glider and 8 ultralight.<ref name="FAA" /> Based aircraft include several amphibians that fly to and land on nearby Lake Tahoe.
== Historical airline service ==
From late 1984 through early 1985, SkyWest Airlines operated nonstop service to Las Vegas (LAS) twice a day with Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner commuter propjets.<ref>http://www.departedflights.com, Feb. 15, 1985 Official Airline Guide (OAG), Las Vegas-Carson City flight schedules</ref>
==See also== * List of airports in Nevada
== References == <references />
== External links == * [http://msrmaps.com/map.aspx?t=1&s=12&lat=39.195&lon=-119.734&w=650&h=450&lp=---+None+--- Aerial photo as of September 1999] from USGS ''The National Map'' * {{FAA-procedures|CXP}} * {{US-airport-minor|CXP|CSN|KCXP}}
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