KGEV
Ashe County Airport
VFR
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Name
Ashe County Airport
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ICAO / GPS
KGEV / KGEV
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- Region
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Timezone
10:10 am (EST)
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Municipality
Jefferson
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Coordinates
36° 25′ 56″ N 81° 25′ 6″ W
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Elevation
3’180 ft (969 m MSL)
About Ashe County Airport
Ashe County Airport (ICAO: KGEV, FAA LID: GEV) is a county-owned, public-use airport in Ashe County, North Carolina, United States. It is located three nautical miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Jefferson, North Carolina. This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Ashe County Airport is assigned GEV by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned GEV to Gällivare Airport in Gällivare, Sweden). The airport's ICAO identifier is KGEV.