KTRI is the ICAO code for Tri-Cities Regional TN/VA Airport (IATA TRI), located in Blountville, TN.
Tri-Cities Regional TN/VA Airport (KTRI) is a medium airport in Blountville, TN. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KTRI or IATA code TRI. It sits in North America.
Tri-Cities Regional TN/VA Airport is a regional commercial airport that doubles as a busy private-aviation base. Operators benefit from full instrument approaches and an FBO infrastructure scaled for regular jet traffic, often without the congestion of the nearest major hub.
The longest runway measures 8,000 ft (2,438 m), a heavy-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G550, Falcon 7X, and Bombardier Global 5500. In practice this most heavy and super-midsize jets operate here without restriction.
Tri-Cities Regional TN/VA Airport lies at 1,519 ft elevation.
Local operations run on America/New_York. Scheduled airline service is light enough that it rarely interferes with charter movements, though planners should still expect to coordinate with the handling agent for international turnarounds.
SkyAccess currently tracks 85 departing and 98 arriving private-jet legs at KTRI across the next six months of operator inventory. 1 aircraft from 8 operators are based here or fly through regularly, so most empty-leg supply originates from a local fleet rather than out-of-town repositioning.
Regional fields like KTRI are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.
Tri-Cities Airport, serves the Tri-Cities area of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. It has a street address in the census-designated place of Blountville, Tennessee, but is adjacent to the city limits of Kingsport. The airport is governed by the Tri-Cities Airport Authority (TCAA) whose members are appointed by the cities of Johnson City, Kingsport, Bristol (TN), Bristol (VA) and both Washington and Sullivan counties in Tennessee.
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