McKinney National Airport

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McKinney National Airport (Template:Comma separated entries), formerly Collin County Regional Airport at McKinney, is a general aviation airport located in McKinney, Texas, United States, about Template:Convert north of downtown Dallas.

The airport is a reliever airport for Dallas Love Field and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. It is owned by the City of McKinney and is home to many business aircraft, including the aircraft fleets of corporations such as Texas Instruments and Toyota Motor Corporation that are headquartered in nearby cities.[1] In May 2023, local voters rejected a $200 million bond issue to build a commercial airline terminal.[2] In January 2025, city officials approved the construction of a $72 million airline terminal to be located on the east side of the airport[3] and in February 2025, a pre-construction contract was approved for the project.[4]

History

In the 1970s, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposed building the region's third major commercial airport, providing commercial air service to the fast-growing northern part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, in McKinney. This failed after local voters rejected a $50 million bond needed to build the new airport facility.[1]

A regional airport was established in McKinney in 1979.[5] Initially opened with a Template:Convert runway, its length was extended to Template:Convert in 1984.[6]

In 2011, McKinney National Airport added a new Template:Convert tall contract FAA air traffic control tower equipped with the latest in radar, radio and voice switch technology. In 2012, a new Template:Convert long, Template:Convert wide runway was completed that can handle large aircraft with a maximum capacity of Template:Convert.[6]

On November 1, 2013, the airport was purchased from Collin County by the City of McKinney for $25 million, and as part of the purchase, the city also took over operations of the fixed base operator (FBO); this move was anticipated to end $600,000 in annual city subsidies, as fuel sold by the FBO was the main revenue source at the airport, and these funds would now go directly to the city rather than to an outside vendor.[7] The McKinney City Council approved changing the airport's name from Collin County Regional Airport to McKinney National Airport later that month.[5]

In 2018, a project to build a new executive terminal at McKinney National Airport began, which was originally slated to be completed in 2019. In September 2019, completion was delayed until 2020 as the city and the construction contractor worked on modifications to the terminal's exterior.[8]

In 2019, the airport received a $15 million grant from the Texas Department of Transportation to extend its runway an additional Template:Convert to Template:Convert.[1]

In 2023, the city proposed issuing $200 million in bonds which, when combined with other funding, would allow the airport to become the third major commercial airport in the metroplex.[9] However, the bond issue was defeated at the polls, with 58.69% of voters voting against it.[2]

In January 2025, after receiving an endorsement from the city council, the McKinney Planning and Zoning Commission approved construction of a Template:Cvt commercial passenger terminal on the east side of the airport, designed with three gates and the ability to be expanded to five. The $72 million facility will have 1,500 parking spaces and rental car facilities. Officials said that discussions had begun with two unnamed low-cost carriers, that the terminal would initially see three to five flights a day using Boeing 737 or Airbus A320 aircraft, and that it would serve 200,000 passengers annually. Some citizens spoke out against the project, citing traffic, noise, and environmental concerns, and pointing to the rejection of the 2023 bond issue as evidence that voters were generally opposed to commercial airline operations in the city.[3]

On February 18, 2025, the McKinney City Council awarded the pre-construction contract for the terminal project to Swinerton Builders. Funding for the project comes from local sources—including the McKinney Economic Development Corporation, the McKinney Community Development Corporation, and Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones—along with a $30M federal loan and federal and state transportation funds.[4]

Facilities

McKinney National Airport covers Template:Convert at an elevation of 589 feet (180 m). The concrete runway is 18/36, 7,002 feet (2,134m) long by 150 feet (46m) with a weight-bearing capacity of Template:Convert double tandem. It has high intensity runway lights, medium-intensity approach lights and precision approach path indicator lights for both runways, a runway 18 instrument landing system Category I approach and RNAV approaches to both 18 and 36.[10]

The airport has vehicle rental and U.S. Customs services for international flights.

In the year ending December 31, 2023, the airport had 142,001 aircraft operations, an average of 389 per day: 93% general aviation, 6% air taxi and <1% military. 203 aircraft were then based at this airport: 144 single-engine, 26 multi-engine, 30 jet and 3 helicopter.[10]

The airport has a contract FAA control tower open between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.

See also

References

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External links

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