Ely Municipal Airport

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Ely Municipal Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCity of Ely
Serves Ely, Minnesota
Elevation  AMSL 1,456 ft / 444 m
Map
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ELO
Location of airport in Minnesota / United States
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ELO
ELO (the United States)
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
12/305,5961,706 Asphalt
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2014)8,200
Based aircraft (2017)14

Ely Municipal Airport( IATA : LYU, ICAO : KELO, FAA LID : ELO) is a public airport located in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States, four miles south of the city of Ely, which owns the airport. [1]

Contents

Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but Ely Municipal Airport is ELO to the FAA and LYU to the IATA (Eldorado, Misiones, Argentina has IATA code ELO).

Facilities

The airport covers 560 acres (230 ha); has one runway, 12/30, which is 5,596 x 100 ft (1,706 x 30 m) with an asphalt surface.

For the year ending May 31, 2014 the airport had 8,200 aircraft operations, an average of 22 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% air taxi.

In January 2017, there were 14 aircraft based at this airport: 13 single-engine and 1 multi-engine. [1]

Past airline service

From 1995 through 2002 Mesaba Airlines, operating as Northwest Airlink on behalf of Northwest Airlines, provided services between Ely and Minneapolis/Saint Paul during the summer months. The once daily flight was operated with a Saab 340 aircraft. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 FAA Airport Form 5010 for ELO PDF , effective Jan 5, 2017.
  2. Northwest Airlines timetables