Business View Magazine | November 2019

161 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 TEXARKANA REGIONAL A I RPORT Texarkana Airport has two asphalt runways: Primary Runway 4/22 measures 6,601 feet in length and Cross Wind Runway 13/31 measures 5,200 in length. Runway 22 offers an ILS precision instrument approach, while non-precision GPS instrument approaches serve all runway ends. “Our operations are a little more GA than commercial,” Mellinger says. “I’d say about 70 percent GA and 30 percent commercial airline. We also have a lot of military activity as well – helicopters and training jets. We have about 60 GA aircraft, home-based – that’s all the way from single-engine prop planes to corporate jets. We have about ten corporate aircraft on the field and the rest, about 50, are for recreational use. We have a waiting list for our T-hangars; right now it only has about three or four people on it, but we are full, and as people move out, we let them come in.” The City of Texarkana, Arkansas is the corporate headquarters of Truman Arnold Companies (TAC), a petroleum marketing company that offers its customers a variety of services through its refined