Vance Brand Airport

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Vance Brand Airport
Vance Brand Airport - USGS 24 April 2002.jpg
USGS aerial image, 2002
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCity of Longmont
Serves Longmont, Colorado
Elevation  AMSL 5,055 ft / 1,541 m
Coordinates 40°09′51″N105°09′49″W / 40.16417°N 105.16361°W / 40.16417; -105.16361
Website longmontcolorado.gov/airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
11/294,8001,463Concrete
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations99,990
Based aircraft281

Vance Brand Airport( ICAO : KLMO, FAA LID : LMO, formerly AMR) is a city-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Longmont, in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. [1] The Airport is named after former NASA astronaut Vance Brand.

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Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility is assigned LMO by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA [2] (which assigned LMO to RAF Lossiemouth in Lossiemouth, Scotland [3] ).

Facilities and aircraft

Vance Brand Airport covers an area of 261 acres (106  ha ) at an elevation of 5,055 feet (1,541 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 11/29 with a concrete surface measuring 4,800 by 75 feet (1,463 x 23 m). [1]

For the 12-month period ending August 28, 2008, the airport had 99,990 aircraft operations, an average of 273 per day: 99.9% general aviation and <0.1% military. At that time there were 281 aircraft based at this airport: 84% single-engine, 7% multi-engine, 1% jet, 3% helicopter and 6% ultralight. [1]

History

The airport was originally opened October 28, 1945, as Longmont Municipal Airport. The airport was renamed to Vance Brand Airport in October 1988. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Form 5010 for LMO PDF . Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 29 July 2010.
  2. ↑ "Vance Brand Airport (ICAO: KLMO, FAA: LMO)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
  3. ↑ "RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland (ICAO: EGQS, IATA: LMO)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
  4. ↑ Antonacci, Karen (October 17, 2015). "Longmont's Vance Brand airport celebrates its 70th birthday". Longmont Times-Call . Archived from the original on 14 September 2022. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
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