Tupelo Regional’s attraction to travelers, airlines, developers and aircraft owners is easy to understand. Although the airport is more than 65 years old, it sparkles today with recent improvements and renovations:

In 1991, the runway was extended to 6,500 feet, with 100-foot-wide grooved pavement. The field offers instrument approaches to aid pilots in times of limited visibility: a new full lighting system and an air traffic control tower.  A new overlay on taxiways, a fire station, a new parking lot and a recently completed security system, including a new perimeter road, complete the facelift.

Nearly every component of Tupelo Regional Airport has been improved, providing a level of safety, security and control that many airports lack. But the work doesn’t end here. The airport has plans for a free-trade zone, which would allow businesses to warehouse their goods, minus inventory taxes.

We have constructed a new T-hangar that accommodates 14 airplanes and allows for expansion in the area of general aviation. This self-serve area offers fueling and space for flight planning. Pilots can already avail themselves of aviation fuel (AvGas and JetA), aircraft rental, flight instruction, aircraft repair and car rental. A spacious and modern terminal building, nine conventional hangar spaces complete the airport’s airside facilities.

Tupelo Regional has the potential to build 10 nested T-hangars to accommodate 140 planes. And with plenty of open space – including two underdeveloped 50-acre sites on the airfield, and a third, 70-acre plot in the industrial park – the airport has plenty of room to grow.

In 1934, a group of businessmen gave Tupelo the funds to buy land for an airfield. They could only imagine the role that Tupelo Regional Airport would later play in the lives of the region’s air travelers and the future of North Mississippi. From that day forward, Tupelo Regional Airport has taken off and soared.

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