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Asheville Regional Airport | '''Asheville Regional Airport''' {{airport codes|AVL|KAVL|AVL}} is a [[Class C airports|Class C]] airport near [[Interstate 26]] near the town of [[Fletcher, North Carolina|Fletcher]], {{convert|9|mi|km}} south of downtown [[Asheville, North Carolina|Asheville]], in the U.S. state of [[North Carolina]], United States. It is owned by the Greater Asheville Regional Airport Authority.<ref name=FAA /> The [[Federal Aviation Administration]] (FAA) [[National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems]] for 2019–2023 [[FAA airport categories|categorized]] it as a small-hub primary commercial service facility.<ref name="NPIAS Airports">{{cite web |title=NPIAS Report 2019-2023 Appendix A |url=https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/reports/media/NPIAS-Report-2019-2023-Appendix-A.pdf |website=[[Federal Aviation Administration]] |access-date=June 14, 2020 |page=75 |date=October 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012054118/https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/reports/media/NPIAS-Report-2019-2023-Appendix-A.pdf |archive-date=October 12, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2019 it served an all-time record number of passengers for the airport, 1,616,762, an increase of 43% over 2018 and the sixth consecutive year of record traffic.<ref>{{cite web|author=Published 1:00 p.m. ET January 23, 2020 |url=https://flyavl.com/article/unprecedented-43-annual-growth-avl-served-16-million-passengers-2019|title=With unprecedented 43% annual growth, AVL served 1.6 million passengers in 2019|publisher=flyavl.com |date=January 23, 2020 |access-date=January 23, 2020}}</ref> | ||
The airport opened with a 6500-foot runway in 1961, replacing the former airport at 35.439°N 82.481°W. The reopening of runway 17/35 after resurfacing was completed in 2019, the new runway is 8001x150 | The airport opened with a 6500-foot runway in 1961, replacing the former airport at 35.439°N 82.481°W. The reopening of runway 17/35 after resurfacing was completed in 2019, the new runway is 8001x150 | ||