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Athens Ben Epps Airport

Athens, United States

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Athens Ben Epps Airport

Athens, United States

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Northeast Georgia's gateway serving the Athens community.

Opened

1920

Location

Athens, United States

Athens Ben Epps Airport (AHN) is a public airport located in Athens, Georgia, serving the northeastern Georgia region including the University of Georgia community. Named after Benjamin T. Epps, a pioneering Georgia aviator who was one of the early aviators in the American South, the airport has a long history tied to local aviation heritage. The airport offers limited commercial service alongside general aviation operations, making it a primarily general aviation facility. Its proximity to the University of Georgia and the city of Athens gives it modest but consistent demand for business and personal travel. As a smaller regional airport, AHN provides a convenient alternative to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport for travelers in the northeastern Georgia area, reducing the need for the roughly 70-mile drive to Atlanta.

Terminals

The airport has a single small terminal building handling the limited commercial and general aviation passenger traffic.

Getting to & from

Ground transportation to downtown Athens and the University of Georgia campus is available via rental cars and taxi services, with the airport located approximately 4 miles from the city center.

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Commercial service at AHN has been limited and intermittent historically, with general aviation dominating operations; no major airline currently maintains scheduled service.

Notable facts

›Named after Benjamin T. Epps Sr., a pioneering Georgia aviator who built and flew his own aircraft in the early 1900s.
›The airport covers approximately 775 acres of land.
›It has two runways, with the primary runway measuring around 5,999 feet in length.
›Athens is home to the University of Georgia, which generates notable general aviation traffic.
›The airport operates as a reliever airport for the congested Atlanta metropolitan area airspace.

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Athens–Ben Epps Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Athens, a city in Clarke County, Georgia, United States. The airport is named after Ben T. Epps, the first aviator in the state of Georgia, who opened the airport in 1917. It is mostly used for general aviation, though it has seen airline service throughout its history.

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