Cherokee County Airport (IATA: 47A, ICAO: K47A) is a small municipal airport located in north-central Cherokee County, Georgia, about halfway between the town of Ball Ground and the city of Canton, Georgia. (Various records list either one as the official address.) An IATA airport code, known by the IATA as an IATA location identifier or, simply, a location identifier [1], is a three-letter alphabetic code designating many airports around the world. ... The ICAO airport code is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... Cherokee County is a county located in the state of Georgia. ... Ball Ground is a city located in Cherokee County, Georgia. ... Canton is a city located in Cherokee County, Georgia. ...

It has a non-directional beacon on AM longwave 416kHz, which identifies itself with DJD in morse code tones, then announces the name twice, followed by "automated altimeter", and the local sea-level pressure in inches of mercury (such as two-niner-niner-five for 29.95). A Non-directional Beacon, or NDB, is a radio broadcast station in a known location, used as a navigational aid by aircraft pilots. ... Am is the present-tense, first-person, singular form of the verb to be, the copula of the English language. ... Longwave radio frequencies are those below 500 kHz, which correspond to wavelengths longer than 600 meters. ... A kilohertz (kHz) is a unit of frequency equal to 1,000 hertz (1,000 cycles per second). ... Automation (ancient Greek: = self dictated) or Industrial Automation is the use of computers to control industrial machinery and processes, replacing human operators. ... An altimeter is an active instrument used to measure the altitude of an object above a fixed level. ... Sea-level pressure or mean sea-level pressure (MSL or MSLP) is the standard that different weather stations employ to compare barometric pressure readings, which are made in inches of mercury. ... Mid-19th century tool for converting between different standards of the inch An inch is an Imperial and U.S. customary unit of length. ... General Name, Symbol, Number mercury, Hg, 80 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 12, 6, d Appearance silvery white Atomic mass 200. ...

External links

• NWS weather observations at this airport (K47A) for past 48 hours
• AirNav data for this airport (47A)
• World Aero Data on this airport (K47A)