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Olive Branch Airport is a civil privately-owned airport open to the public. It located three miles (5 km) northeast of the central business district of Olive Branch, MS, a city in DeSoto County, Mississippi, United States. It is also only about a 30 minute drive from Memphis, Tennessee, making it an easily-accessible satellite airport for the general aviation and business air travel communities wanting to access the East Memphis/Germantown/Collierville area. It is owned and operated by Metro Industrial Park Ltd.

Olive Branch Airport has a fully functioning "Class D" control tower with an up-link to Memphis International Airport's radar. It is staffed from 7am - 10pm daily.

Air Venture Flight Center is based out of Olive Branch Airport. Air Venture Flight Center is a flight training school and aircraft rental company. They have a full time staff of professional flight instructors and a nice fleet of Cessna aircraft. Air Venture Flight Center is also a Cessna Pilot Center and operates a charter company called Vectair-USA.

A few charter companies have jets and/or turbojets based at Olive Branch Airport. Vectair-USA uses some of Air Venture's larger aircraft for chartered flights. OneSky Jets has one KingAir B100 based there.

Metro Aviation Service is the fixed base operations of Olive Branch Airport. They provide both 100LL and Jet-A fuel for aircraft that are both based there and transient.

History
In the early 1970's, Holiday Inn announced they would construct what would be called Holiday Inn University and Conference Center in Olive Branch, Mississippi. Simultaneous with construction of the University, Holiday Inn began work on a 3,000-acre industrial park and the Olive Branch Airport that opened in January, 1973. Today the development is known as Metro Industrial Park. It is an 800 acre fully planned, improved, and restricted industrial facility. It includes the Olive Branch Airport -- one of Mississippi's busiest -- offering a 6,000 foot paved, lighted runway, and full service fixed base operations (via Metro Aviation Service). Today the industrial complex, the hotel/conference center, and Olive Branch Airport are owned by Belz Enterprises.

Facilities and aircraft
Facilities include a general aviation terminal, 24 conventional hangars, 26 T-hangar units, and 140 paved tie-down spaces. The airport also offers on-site car rental through Enterprise Rent-A-Car and lodging arrangements at the nearby Whispering Woods Conference Center (previously the Holiday Inn University and Conference Center).

Airlines and destinations
While a few charter operations operate out of Olive Branch Airport, including Vectair-USA and OneSky Jets, no regular service operates there.