Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter
location identifier for the
FAA and
IATA, but Mid-Way Regional Airport is assigned JWY by the FAA and has no IATA designation.[3]
Facilities
Mid-Way Regional Airport covers 243 acres (98 ha) at an elevation of 727 feet (222 m) above
mean sea level and has one
runway:
Runway 18/36: 6,500 x 100 ft. (1,981 x 30 m), Surface:
Asphalt[1]
For the year ending 31 October 2017, the airport had 49,700 aircraft operations, averaging 136 per day: 99%
general aviation and less than 1%
military. 101 aircraft were then based at this airport: 73% single-
engine, 15% multi-engine, 7%
gliders, 3%
jet, 1%
ultralights, and 1%
helicopters.[1]
Accidents and incidents
30 July 2010: An
American Champion 7GCBC Citabria, registration number N5027G, turned and struck the ground in a near-vertical nose-low attitude after departing for an instructional flight, killing the instructor pilot and student pilot. An autopsy of the instructor revealed severe
atherosclerosis of the right
coronary artery with superimposed fresh-recent
thrombus, suggesting an acute
myocardial infarction (heart attack). No signs of heart trouble could be found in the instructor's prior medical history. The accident was attributed to "The flight instructor’s incapacitation due to preexisting but unrecognized coronary disease, and the student pilot’s distraction and inability to recover the airplane from a
stall/
spin at low altitude."[4]
8 April 2016: An
American Champion 7GCBC Citabria, registration number N5046N, climbed sharply and
stalled on takeoff, striking the ground in a left-wing-low, nose-down attitude. The student pilot in the front seat was killed and the instructor in the rear seat sustained minor injuries. The instructor claimed to have tried to push the
control stick forward to prevent a stall, but the stick would not move, despite having operated freely during the
pre-flight inspection. The accident was attributed to "The flight instructor's inability to move the control stick after takeoff for undetermined reasons, which resulted in an exceedance of the airplane's critical
angle of attack an inadvertent aerodynamic stall. The reason for the inability to move the control stick could not be determined, because postaccident examination revealed no evidence of flight control malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation."[5]