Which airport is between airways V9 and V557?

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Which airport is between airways V9 and V557?

Low-altitude airways create defined corridors on IFR enroute charts, with each airway drawn as a line between VORs. When an airport sits between two airways, it lies in the geographic band between those lines. Hawkins Field sits in that corridor between V9 and V557, so it’s the airport that lies between the two routes. The other airports don’t fall inside that same band on the chart, which is why they aren’t between V9 and V557.

Low-altitude airways create defined corridors on IFR enroute charts, with each airway drawn as a line between VORs. When an airport sits between two airways, it lies in the geographic band between those lines. Hawkins Field sits in that corridor between V9 and V557, so it’s the airport that lies between the two routes. The other airports don’t fall inside that same band on the chart, which is why they aren’t between V9 and V557.

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