Quadramodel System
Air Transport
- "Community Business" General Aviation Airport
- 5,000 foot runway (expanding to 6,500 feet)
- Full parallel taxiway
- ILS operation
- Standard Elevation: 341.0
- Latitude & Longitude: N36-22.91, W088-59.13
- Card reader system for fuel
- Terminal facility and 3 hangars currently serve customer needs
- In service since 1949
- Services 26% of the nation’s most popular business jet aircraft at their maximum operating range
- Approved Operating Plan permits runway and parallel taxiway expansion to 7,000 feet
- Access road under construction to the airport from SR 22, a four-lane corridor connecting U.S. 51 to I-40 at Parker’s Crossroads, Tennessee
- FUTURE PROJECTS - Crossing runway, flight control center, improved airport security, new fuel farm, and construction of additional hangars to meet growing need along with redesignation of the airport to a “Regional Service” facility
- 700 adjoining acres of land available for industrial, distribution, and/or commercial development
Airport Brochure
Highway Transport

- FOUR-LANE CORRIDORS
- U.S. 51 - connects to the Kentucky Interstate System and I-55 through Missoursi and Arkansas to St. Louis/Memphis
- SR 22 - connects to I-40
- SR 45 - connects to I-40, scheduled to be upgraded to four-lane within the next 3 year
I-69

- I-69 passes directly through Union City/Obion County
- INTERCHANGES - 8 interchanges located within the county
- Construction is scheduled to begin during 2008 with the completion of I-69 through Obion County in 2011
Tennessee Department of Transportation – Project I-69
Rail Transport
- Railroad extends from Montreal, Canada, south to New Orleans, Louisiana
- World class rail service as well as connection to all seven Class 1 railroads within the United States
Water Transport
- Deepwater/slackwater port facility on the Mississippi River near Tiptonville, Tennessee
- Tennessee’s second most important river port facility
- 9,000 foot long harbor with 130-foot bottom width
- 9-foot deep channel at low water with an additional 2-foot overdredge
- 300-foot diameter turning basin at the upper end of the channel
- Low water depth of the Mississippi River is 23 feet at the port facility entrance
Port of Cates Landing Brochure
For information contact:
Obion County Joint Economic Development Council (731) 885-0211
Northwest Tennessee Regional Port Authority (731) 287-4600