Cleveland Regional Jetport is a public general aviation airport located near the community of Tasso, Tennessee, US, approximately four miles north of the business district of Cleveland. Opened on January 25, 2013, it is owned by the City of Cleveland and serves Cleveland and Bradley County. Facilities The airport contains a 6,200 foot by 100 foot concrete runway, an 8,000 square foot terminal building, a thirty-five foot wide taxiway, a 311,452 square foot apron, and twenty hangars. History Background Cleveland Regional Jetport was constructed to replace Hardwick Field, established in 1955 and located about to the west. Hardwick field consisted of a asphalt runway. By the early 1970s, many local leaders had come to view Hardwick Field's facilities as inadequate for the community. In 1973, a newly elected city commissioner proposed a new general aviation airport for the city to be constructed at a new site, and later that year, a proposal was unveiled to double the length of the runway to . Further efforts continued throughout the 1980s. In 1991, then-newly elected mayor of Cleveland Tom Rowland set a goal for a new general aviation airport for the city. A study commissioned by the city in 1994 identified 18 possible sites for a new airport, including the one near the Tasso community. The push for a new airport was further energized in March 2000, when then-governor Don Sundquist flew into Hardwick Field and expressed his opinion that the facility was the "worst airport in the state." In 2004, the Cleveland City Council authorized the creation of the Cleveland Municipal Airport Authority. On January 28, 2005, several proposals to lengthen and expand the runway at Hardwick Field, which would have required additional purchased land, were presented to the airport authority. At the time, then-chairwoman of the airport authority Lynn Devault expressed doubt that another site would be found for a new airport. Many residents living around the airport expressed opposition to these proposals, and requested that the city pursue and new site instead. After the proposed expansions of Hardwick Field were ruled unfeasible, the airport authority began reviewing sites from the 1994 study, and settled on the site on Dry Valley Road, then a series of farms. This proposal was also met with opposition, however. The authority, which chose not to acquire land via eminent domain, soon worked a deal with the property owners to sell the land, and on