Henderson Executive Airport
Henderson Executive Airport (IATA: HSH, ICAO: KHND, FAA LID: HND) is a public use government airport located in Henderson, Nevada, 13 miles south of Las Vegas, in Clark County, Nevada. The airport is owned by the Clark County Commission and operated by the Clark County Department of Aviation. The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009-2013 categorized it as a reliever airport.
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Clark County Commission | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Clark County Department of Aviation | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Las Vegas | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Henderson, Nevada | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,491 ft / 759 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°58′22″N 115°08′04″W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||
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It was founded by Arby Alper in 1967 on 912 acres purchased from the city of Henderson, and opened in 1970 as Sky Harbor Airport. Clark County bought the airport in 1996 and renamed it Henderson Executive Airport.
Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but Henderson Executive Airport is HND to the FAA and HSH to the IATA (which assigned HND to Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan). The airport's ICAO identifier is KHND.