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Mayes Airport was an privately owned, public use airport located four nautical miles (7 km) north-northwest of the central business district of Carson City, in Montcalm County, Michigan, United States.[1]

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  1. 18 relations: Acre, Aircraft engine, Airport, Carson City, Michigan, Central business district, Elevation, Federal Aviation Administration, General aviation, Hectare, Kilometre, Montcalm County, Michigan, Nautical mile, PDF, Poaceae, Runway, Sea level, The National Map, United States Geological Survey.

  2. Defunct airports in Michigan
  3. Michigan airport stubs

Acre

The acre is a unit of land area used in the British imperial and the United States customary systems.

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Aircraft engine

An aircraft engine, often referred to as an aero engine, is the power component of an aircraft propulsion system.

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Airport

An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport.

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Carson City, Michigan

Carson City is a city in Montcalm County of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Central business district

A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business center of a city.

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Elevation

The elevation of a geographic ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical datum).

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Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a U.S. federal government agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation which regulates civil aviation in the United States and surrounding international waters.

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General aviation

General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations except for commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services for other purposes.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), that is, 10,000 square meters (10,000 m2), and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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Kilometre

The kilometre (SI symbol: km; or), spelt kilometer in American English and Philippine English, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousand metres (kilo- being the SI prefix for). It is the preferred measurement unit to express distances between geographical places on land in most of the world; notable exceptions are the United States and the United Kingdom where the statute mile is used.

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Montcalm County, Michigan

Montcalm County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Nautical mile

A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters.

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PDF

Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Poaceae

Poaceae, also called Gramineae, is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses.

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Runway

According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft".

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.

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The National Map

The National Map is a collaborative effort of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and other federal, state, and local agencies to improve and deliver topographic information for the United States.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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See also

Defunct airports in Michigan

Michigan airport stubs

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayes_Airport