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Air Transport

Everett Stewart Airport

  • "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

Canadian National (CN) Railroad

  • 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

Port of Cates Landing

  • 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