Memphis International Airport
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| Memphis International
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| IATA: MEM - ICAO: KMEM | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type
| Public | ||
| Operator
| Memphis Shelby County Airport Authority | ||
| Serves
| Memphis, Tennessee | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 341 ft (103.9 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Website
| www.mscaa.com | ||
| Parts of this article may come from Wikipedia | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 18C/36C | 11,120 | 3,389 | Concrete |
| 18R/36L | 9,320 | 2,841 | Concrete |
| 18L/36R | 9,000 | 2,743 | Concrete |
| 9/27 | 8,946 | 2,727 | Asphalt |
Contents |
General
Memphis International Airport is a public airport located 3 miles south of the city of Memphis, Tennessee in Shelby County, Tennessee.
For the 15th consecutive year, Memphis International Airport has been named the world's busiest cargo airport based on rankings released by the Airports Council International (ACI), Geneva. According to preliminary rankings, Memphis International Airport handled 3,692,205 tons of cargo during 2006, a 2.6 percent increase over the 3.59 million tons handled during 2005.
Memphis Municipal Airport opened on a 200 acre (0.8 km²) plot of farmland just over seven miles (10 km) from downtown Memphis. During its early years, the airport consisted of three hangars and an unpaved runway. Passenger and air mail service was provided by American Airways and Chicago and Southern Air Lines. In 1939, four new carriers won route wards to serve Memphis: Braniff Airways, Capital Airlines, Eastern Air Lines, and Southern Airways.
The current terminal was built in 1963, and Memphis Municipal changed its name to Memphis International in 1969. However, the airport had no non-stop intercontinental routes until 1995, when KLM began service to Amsterdam.
FedEx established its freight hub in Memphis in 1973, and Republic Airlines established a passenger hub in 1985, which was absorbed into Northwest in 1986.
Gate Assignments
MetroAir operates out of FS9 Gate: Parking 5 Medium (slew to B2) Real Gate: B2
Flight Planning Resources
- Airport Diagram
- Terminal Procedures - contains SID, STAR and IAP
IFR Routes
Pilots should add their IFR route plans originating from KMEM here as a central repository for their fellow pilots.
| Destination | Route | Suggested Altitude | Charts | Preferred | Comments |
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| KDTW | MEM7 MEM J29 IMPEL VHP FWA MIZAR3 | Range: FL190-410 (odd) | KDEN KMEM | 
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Available Sceneries
| FS version | pay-/freeware | developer | available updates |
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| FS9 | payware | Blueprint Simulations - KMEM, Memphis International Airport - april 2008 | none |
| FS9 | freeware | AVSIM - Vladimir Svoboda (Cesmina) - KMEM 2004 - january 2004 | AVSIM - Jim Martin - KMEM new AFCAD - march 2008 |
| FSX | payware | Blueprint Simulations - KMEM, Memphis International Airport - april 2008 | none |
