Beech River Regional Airport is a public-use airport in Henderson County, Tennessee, United States. It is located northwest of the central business district of Parsons, a city in Decatur County.
The airport opened in 2006 and is owned by Beech River Regional Airport Authority, representing the cities of Lexington and Parsons, the counties of Henderson and Decatur, and the state of Tennessee. It is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011âÂÂ2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.
Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility is assigned PVE by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA, which assigned PVE to El Porvenir, Panama.
Beech River Regional Airport covers an area of at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 1/19 with a concrete surface measuring .
For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2010, the airport had 3,440 aircraft operations, an average of 286 per month; 93% were general aviation, 6% were air taxi, and 1% were military. At that time, 26 aircraft were based at this airport, 73% single-engined, 15% multiengined, and 13% jet.
The airport is attended during regular business hours and has 100LL avgas and Jet A fuel services. It is included under the Jackson FSS. It has runway lighting and PAPI on both runways, and is lighted sunset to sunrise. NOTAMs are filed with McKellar-Sipes Regional Airport. PVE is located on the Memphis sectional chart.