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Elmira Corning Regional Airport lies in Chemung County, New York, between the cities of Elmira and Corning, serving the Southern Tier of New York and the Northern Tier of Pennsylvania. County-owned and operated, it combines scheduled airline service with general aviation, glider activity and an on-field aviation museum, and offers a long ILS-equipped runway well suited to instrument approaches. For the VFR sim pilot it presents a straightforward regional field set among rolling Southern Tier terrain just north of Interstate 86.
Elmira Corning Regional Airport is a county-owned public airport in Chemung County, New York, serving the twin communities of Elmira and Corning as well as the wider Southern Tier of New York and Northern Tier of Pennsylvania. It hosts a mix of scheduled airline flights, general aviation, air taxi operations and glider activity, and is home to the Wings of Eagles Discovery Center aviation museum. For a simulator pilot it offers a genuine regional-airport experience, with a long ILS runway alongside a shorter crosswind strip and a grass runway for lighter traffic.
The airport sits in the town of Big Flats, about 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Elmira and 8 miles (13 km) east of Corning, just north of the Southern Tier Expressway (Interstate 86); its mailing address gives the location as Horseheads, New York. Other airports in the area include Greater Binghamton Airport and Ithaca Tompkins International Airport, with Greater Rochester International Airport and Syracuse Hancock International Airport lying farther afield.
The field has two paved physical runways and one turf strip. Runway 06/24 is asphalt, lit, and equipped with an ILS, measuring 7395 ft on the 06 threshold and 7786 ft on the 24 threshold. Runway 10/28 is asphalt and lit, at 5378 ft from the 10 threshold and 4977 ft from the 28 threshold. Runway 05/23 is a grass strip of 2019 ft in each direction. Field elevation is 942 ft.
Elmira Corning Regional Airport is served by a tower and associated frequencies: Tower on 121.1 MHz, Ground/Clearance Delivery on 121.9 MHz, Approach/Departure on 119.45 MHz, ATIS on 125.475 MHz, CTAF on 122.4 MHz, and UNICOM on 122.95 MHz. Buffalo Radio can be reached on 122.2 MHz. An ILS is available for the 06/24 runway.
The Wings of Eagles Discovery Center aviation museum sits on the airport property and can serve as a useful ground reference when approaching the field. The Southern Tier Expressway (Interstate 86), which runs just south of the airport, is a prominent linear landmark for pilots orienting themselves toward the field from the surrounding Chemung County countryside.
The airport has served the Southern Tier of Central New York and the Northern Tier of Central Pennsylvania since 1945 and was formerly known as Elmira Regional Airport. In its early years it had three paved runways of roughly 4,000 feet each, oriented north-south, east-west and northeast-southwest; the northeast-southwest runway was progressively lengthened over the decades, reaching 4,702 feet by 1960, 5,604 feet in the 1960s, and eventually its present length after further extensions. The east-west runway was extended to about 5,200 feet by the early 1980s, while the north-south runway was abandoned, with part of its pavement absorbed into the east-west runway's overrun. Mohawk Airlines introduced the airport's first jet service with BAC One-Eleven aircraft in 1965; on 23 June 1967, Mohawk Airlines Flight 40, a BAC One-Eleven departing Elmira/Corning, crashed at Blossburg, Pennsylvania, killing all 34 people aboard. The airport also saw service from Capital Airlines, later merged into United Airlines, which operated at Elmira until 1966, and from Mohawk's successor carriers Allegheny and USAir until 2001. A major $40 million state-funded redesign of the airport was completed in 2018.
The airport remains county-owned and operated, combining scheduled airline service from Allegiant Air and Delta Connection with general aviation, air taxi and glider activity. Two fixed-base operators, Atlantic Aviation and Premier Aviation, are based on the field separate from the commercial terminal, offering ramp parking, fuelling, de-icing and hangar space, with Premier Aviation also providing specialised maintenance services. The Wings of Eagles Discovery Center, an aviation museum with around twenty display aircraft and full-size replicas, is located on the airport grounds.
