Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport (IATA: JAN, ICAO: KJAN, FAA LID: JAN) is a city-owned, public, civil-military airport in Jackson, Mississippi, six miles (9 km) east of Jackson, across the Pearl River.
It serves commercial, private, and military aviation. It is named after Medgar Evers, the former Mississippi Field Secretary for the NAACP, and is administered by the Jackson Municipal Airport Authority (JMAA), which also oversees aviation activity at Hawkins Field (HKS) in northwest Jackson.
JACKSON EVERS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT HISTORY
What is now Jackson-Evers International Airport opened in 1963 as a new airport to replace Hawkins Field, Jackson’s first airport, operating since 1928. Delta Air Lines’s first flight, from Dallas Love Field, landed at Hawkins Field in 1929. The new airport was named Allen C. Thompson Field (after the Mayor of Jackson at the time, who was instrumental in obtaining the land for the airfield), which remains the name for the land on which the airport is built. The airport was “Jackson Municipal Airport.”
JACKSON EVERS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LOCATION
Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport (IATA: JAN, ICAO: KJAN, FAA LID: JAN) is a city-owned, public, civil-military airport in Jackson, Mississippi, six miles (9 km) east of Jackson, across the Pearl River.
JACKSON EVERS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT FACTS
ICAO/IATA: JAN/KJAN
Lat: 32.31119918823242
Long: -90.07589721679688
Elevation: 346 ft.
Runway length available: 16R/34L 8500×150 ft. :: 16L/34R 8500×150 ft.
