Leg 148 KMIE - Muncie (USA) to I40 - Coshocton (USA)
KMIE - Airport Info
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ICAO code: KMIE
Airport name: Johnson Fiel Airport
Location: Muncie
Useful information
Airport elevation: '
Time zone: UTC-
Lighted runways : Yes
Maximum runway length: '
Runway surface : Asphalt
Instrument approach (ILS, LOC, LDA, and SDF):
Muncie Info
Muncie, city, seat of Delaware County, eastern Indiana, on the White River; incorporated as a city 1865. Manufactures include aerospace and telecommunications equipment, pharmaceuticals, metal products, machine tools, and electrical components. Ball State University (1918) and two junior colleges are here. The city is named for the Munsee group of Delaware people, who settled on the site in the 1770s. Industrialization was spurred by the discovery of natural gas in 1886. Muncie, as the “typical” American town, was the subject of the Middletown books (1929, 1937) by the anthropologists Robert S. Lynd and Helen M. Lynd. Similar studies of the city were made in the early 1980s. Population 77,216 (1980); 71,035 (1990); 67,430 (2000).
I40 - Airport Info
ICAO code: I40
Airport name: Richard Downing Airport
Location: Coshocton
Useful information
Airport elevation: '
Time zone: UTC-
Lighted runways : Yes
Maximum runway length: '
Runway surface : Asphalt
Instrument approach (ILS, LOC, LDA, and SDF):
Coshocton Info
Coshocton, city and the seat of Coshocton County, in central Ohio, 103 km (64 mi) northeast of Columbus. In 1764 Colonel Henry Bouquet led an expedition to Coshocton to rescue 363 settlers being held captive by Native Americans. Coshocton, then called Tuscarawa, was laid out in 1802 on the site of a Native American village. Coshocton took its present name, which is thought to mean either “fording place” or “place of the black bear,” in 1811. The city was incorporated in 1902. The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, which houses a fine collection of Native American and Asian art, is located in Coshocton. Population 12,193 (1990); 11,682 (2000).