Mountain Empire Airport
Mountain Empire Airport is a public use airport in Smyth County, Virginia, United States. It located nine nautical miles (10 mi, 17 km) northeast of the central business district of Marion (in Smyth County) and 13 nautical miles (15 mi, 24 km) west of Wytheville (in Wythe County). The airport is situated between Interstate 81 and U.S. Route 11 (Lee Highway), near Groseclose. It is owned by Smyth Wythe Airport Commission. This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a "general aviation" facility. Although many U.S. airports  use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned MKJ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned MKJ to Makoua Airport in Makoua, Republic of the Congo). Facilities and aircraft. Mountain Empire Airport covers an area of 120 acres (49 ha) at an elevation of 2,558 feet (780 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 8/26 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,252 by 75 feet (1,601 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2009, the airport had 10,405 aircraft operations, an  average of 28 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% military. At that time there were 25 aircraft based at this airport: 92% single-engine, 4% multi-engine, and 4% helicopter.