Jackson-Evers International Airport (IATA: JAN, ICAO: KJAN, FAA LID: JAN) is a city-owned, public-use, joint civil-military airport located in Jackson, Mississippi, five nautical miles (9 km) east of the central business district of Jackson, across the Pearl River.
It services commercial, private, and military aviation. It is named after Medgar Evers, the former Mississippi Field Secretary for the NAACP, and is administered by the Jackson Municipal Airport Authority (JMAA), which also oversees aviation activity at Hawkins Field (HKS) in northwest Jackson.
As of March 2011, the Jackson-Evers International Airport was ranked as the 8th-best airport in a worldwide consumer survey conducted by Airports Council International (ACI). It was the only airport within the United States to be ranked within the top ten.
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