Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport

Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport (IATA: UMZ, ICAO: KMEZ, FAA LID: MEZ) is a city-owned, public-use airport located 2 nmi (3.7 km) southeast of the central business district of Mena, a city in Polk County, Arkansas, United States.

[4] Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport covers an area of 667 acres (270 ha) at an elevation of 1,080 feet (329 m) above mean sea level.

[1] For the 12-month period ending January 31, 2020, the airport had 31,000 aircraft operations, an average of 85 per day: 93% general aviation, 5% air taxi, and 2% military.

[1] A number of allegations have been made about the use of Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport as a CIA drop point in large scale cocaine trafficking, beginning in the latter part of the 1980s.

The topic has received some press coverage that has included allegations of awareness, participation and/or coverup involving prominent figures such as Reagan administration officials, then governor Bill Clinton[5][6] and Saline County prosecutor Dan Harmon (who was convicted of numerous felonies including drug and racketeering charges in 1997[7]).