List of airports in Colorado

The location of the State of Colorado in the United States of America .

This is a list of airports in the U.S. State of Colorado grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.

Airports

This list contains the following information:

• City served – The city generally associated with the airport, as per the airport's master record with the Federal Aviation Administration. This is not always the actual location since some airports are located in smaller towns outside of the city they serve. It is not meant to be a complete list of cities served, which can be found in or added to each airport's Wikipedia article.
• FAA – The location identifier assigned by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).These are linked to each airport's page at the Colorado Department of Transportation.
• IATA – The airport code assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Those that do not match the FAA code are shown in bold.
• ICAO – The location indicator assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
• Airport name – The official airport name. Those shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled passenger service on commercial airlines.
• Role – One of four FAA airport categories, as per the 2023–2027 National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) reportreleased September 2022:
  • P-s: Commercial service – primary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have more than 10,000 passenger boardings (enplanements) each year. Each primary airport is sub-classified by the FAA as one of the following four "hub" types (s):
    • L: Large hub that accounts for at least 1% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
    • M: Medium hub that accounts for between 0.25% and 1% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
    • S: Small hub that accounts for between 0.05% and 0.25% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
    • N: Nonhub that accounts for less than 0.05% of total U.S. passenger enplanements, but more than 10,000 annual enplanements.
  • CS: Commercial service – nonprimary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have at least 2,500 passenger boardings each year.
  • R: Reliever airports are designated by the FAA to relieve congestion at a large commercial service airport and to provide more general aviation access to the overall community.
  • GA: General aviation airports are the largest single group of airports in the U.S. airport system.
• Enplanements – The number of enplanements (commercial passenger boardings) that occurred at the airport in calendar year 2021, as per FAA recordsreleased 2022.

City served	FAA	IATA	ICAO	Airport name	Role	Enplanements (2021)
				Commercial service – primary airports
Alamosa	ALS	ALS	KALS	San Luis Valley Regional Airport (Bergman Field)	P-N	11,987
Aspen	ASE	ASE	KASE	Aspen/Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field)	P-N	248,781
Colorado Springs	COS	COS	KCOS	City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport	P-S	941,917
Denver	DEN	DEN	KDEN	Denver International Airport	P-L	28,645,527
Durango	DRO	DRO	KDRO	Durango–La Plata County Airport	P-N	200,245
Eagle/Vail	EGE	EGE	KEGE	Eagle County Regional Airport	P-N	201,752
Grand Junction	GJT	GJT	KGJT	Grand Junction Regional Airport (Walker Field)	P-N	252,290
Gunnison	GUC	GUC	KGUC	Gunnison–Crested Butte Regional Airport	P-N	38,783
Hayden	HDN	HDN	KHDN	Yampa Valley Airport (Yampa Valley Regional)	P-N	150,142
Montrose	MTJ	MTJ	KMTJ	Montrose Regional Airport	P-N	188,355
				Commercial service – nonprimary airports
Cortez	CEZ	CEZ	KCEZ	Cortez Municipal Airport	CS	6,195
Fort Collins/Loveland	FNL	FNL	KFNL	Northern Colorado Regional Airport	CS	5,248
Pueblo	PUB	PUB	KPUB	Pueblo Memorial Airport	CS	9,624
Telluride	TEX	TEX	KTEX	Telluride Regional Airport	CS	6,691
				Reliever airports
Aurora (Denver)	CFO		KCFO	Colorado Air and Space Port (was Front Range)	R	0
Broomfield (Denver)	BJC	BJC	KBJC	Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (was Jefferson Co.)	R	670
Centennial (Denver)	APA	APA	KAPA	Centennial Airport	R	496
Colorado Springs	FLY		KFLY	Meadow Lake Airport (was FAA: 00V)	R	0
				General aviation airports
Akron	AKO	AKO	KAKO	Colorado Plains Regional Airport	GA	0
Boulder	BDU	WBU	KBDU	Boulder Municipal Airport	GA	0
Buena Vista	AEJ		KAEJ	Central Colorado Regional Airport	GA	0
Burlington	ITR		KITR	Kit Carson County Airport	GA	0
Cañon City	1V6	CNE		Fremont County Airport	GA	0
Craig	CAG	CIG	KCAG	Craig-Moffat Airport (Craig-Moffat County Airport)	GA	0
Delta	AJZ		KAJZ	Blake Field	GA	0
Erie	EIK		KEIK	Erie Municipal Airport	GA	0
Fort Morgan	FMM		KFMM	Fort Morgan Municipal Airport	GA	0
Granby	GNB		KGNB	Granby-Grand County Airport	GA	0
Greeley	GXY	GXY	KGXY	Greeley-Weld County Airport	GA	0
Holyoke	HEQ		KHEQ	Holyoke Airport (Holyoke Municipal Airport)	GA	0
Kremmling	20V			McElroy Airfield (McElroy Field)	GA	8
La Junta	LHX		KLHX	La Junta Municipal Airport	GA	0
Lamar	LAA	LAA	KLAA	Southeast Colorado Regional Airport	GA	0
Leadville	LXV	LXV	KLXV	Lake County Airport (Leadville Airport)	GA	0
Limon	LIC	LIC	KLIC	Limon Municipal Airport	GA	0
Longmont	LMO		KLMO	Vance Brand Airport (was AMR/KAMR)	GA	0
Meeker	EEO		KEEO	Meeker Coulter Field	GA	15
Monte Vista	MVI		KMVI	Monte Vista Municipal Airport	GA	0
Nucla	AIB		KAIB	Hopkins Field	GA	0
Pagosa Springs	PSO	PGO	KPSO	Stevens Field	GA	2
Rangely	4V0	RNG		Rangely Airport	GA	0
Rifle	RIL	RIL	KRIL	Rifle Garfield County Regional Airport	GA	169
Salida	ANK	SLT	KANK	Harriet Alexander Field	GA	0
Steamboat Springs	SBS	SBS	KSBS	Steamboat Springs Airport (Bob Adams Field)	GA	0
Sterling	STK	STK	KSTK	Sterling Municipal Airport	GA	0
Trinidad	TAD	TAD	KTAD	Perry Stokes Airport	GA	13
Walsenburg	4V1			Spanish Peaks Airfield	GA	0
Wray	2V5			Wray Municipal Airport	GA	0
Yuma	2V6			Yuma Municipal Airport	GA	0
				Other public-use airports (not listed in NPIAS)
Akron	5V6			Gebauer Airport
Blanca	05V			Blanca Airport
Brush	7V5			Brush Municipal Airport
Calhan	5V4			Calhan Airport
Center	1V8			Leach Airport
Crawford	99V			Crawford Airport
Creede	C24			Mineral County Memorial Airport
Del Norte	RCV		KRCV	Astronaut Kent Rominger Airport (Del Norte Muni. & Co.)
Delta	D17			Westwinds Airport (Hawkins Field)
Dove Creek	8V6			Dove Creek Airport
Durango	00C	AMK		Animas Air Park
Eads	9V7			Eads Municipal Airport
Ellicott	CO4			Colorado Springs East Airport
Glenwood Springs	GWS	GWS	KGWS	Glenwood Springs Municipal Airport
Greeley	11V			Easton/Valley View Airport
Haxtun	17V			Haxtun Municipal Airport
Holly	K08			Holly Airport
Hudson	18V			Platte Valley Airpark
Julesburg	7V8			Julesburg Municipal Airport
La Veta	07V			Cuchara Valley Airport at La Veta
Las Animas	7V9			City of Las Animas - Bent County Airport
Ordway	C01			Lake Meredith Seaplane Base
Paonia	7V2	WPO		North Fork Valley Airport
Rangely	13R			Kenney Reservoir Seaplane Base
Saguache	04V			Saguache Municipal Airport
Springfield	8V7			Springfield Municipal Airport
Walden	33V			Walden-Jackson County Airport
Westcliffe	C08			Silver West Airport
				Other military airports
Aurora	BKF	BKF	KBKF	Buckley Space Force Base
Colorado Springs	AFF	AFF	KAFF	United States Air Force Academy
Fort Carson	FCS	FCS	KFCS	Butts Army Airfield (Fort Carson)
				Notable private-use airports
Beaver Creek	4CO9			Beaver Creek Heliport		5
Crested Butte	0CO2	CSE		Buckhorn Ranch Airport
Mack	10CO			Mack Mesa Airport
				Notable former airports
Avon	WHR			Avon STOLPort (closed sometime between 1986 and 1994)
Breckenridge				Breckenridge STOLport (closed between 1998 and 2002) [1]
Denver		DEN	KDEN	Stapleton International Airport (replaced by Denver Intl)
Fort Collins	3V5			Fort Collins Downtown Airport (closed Nov. 1, 2006)

By traffic

Annual passenger traffic at ALS ASE COS DEN DRO EGE GJT GUC HDN MTJ airports. See Wikidata query.

See also

• Transportation portal
• Geography portal
• History portal
• United States portal
• Colorado portal

• Essential Air Service
• Bibliography of Colorado
• Geography of Colorado
• History of Colorado
• Index of Colorado-related articles
• List of Colorado-related lists
• Outline of Colorado

References

1. "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Southwestern Colorado". www.airfields-freeman.com. Retrieved 2024-09-03.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA):

• FAA Airport Data (Form 5010) from National Flight Data Center (NFDC), also available from AirportIQ 5010
• National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (2017–2021), released September 2016
• Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) Data for CY 2019 and 2020, updated November 8, 2021

Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT):

• Aeronautics Division

Other sites used as a reference when compiling and updating this list:

• Aviation Safety Network – used to check IATA airport codes
• Great Circle Mapper: Airports in Colorado – used to check IATA and ICAO airport codes
• Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Colorado – used for information on former airports

External links

• State of Colorado
  • Colorado Department of Transportation
    • Colorado Division of Aeronautics
      • Colorado Division of Aeronautics map of Colorado Airports

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