Lake County Airport (Colorado)
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Lake County Airport (Template:Comma separated entries), also known as Leadville Airport, is a county-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) southwest of the central business district of Leadville, a city in Lake County, Colorado, United States.[1]
According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, it is categorized as a general aviation airport.[2]
At an elevation of 9,934 ft (3,026 m) above mean sea level the airport claims the distinctionScript error: No such module "Unsubst". of being North America's highest. Pilots receive a free certificate commemorating their landing upon a successful arrival.[3] Aircraft performance deteriorates rapidly with altitude, so many organizationsScript error: No such module "Unsubst". use the Leadville Airport as a base for high-altitude performance testing.
Facilities and aircraft
Lake County Airport covers an area of Script error: No such module "convert".. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 16/34 which measures 6,400 by 75 feet (1,951 x 23 m). It also has one helipad designated H1 with a concrete surface measuring 150 by 100 feet (46 x 30 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2008, the airport had 10,000 aircraft operations, an average of 27 per day: 78% general aviation, 20% military, and 2% air taxi. At that time there were 11 aircraft based at this airport, all single-engine.[1]
At one point, the airport had scheduled passenger airline service. Rocky Mountain Airways operated flights with de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter turboprop aircraft to Denver, thus earning Lake County Airport the distinction of being the highest airfield in the U.S. ever to receive airline service.
The highest helicopter flight training school in the world, RAVCO,[4] operates out of the Lake County Airport. Their Mountain/High Altitude Test and Training Site (M/HATTS) is acknowledged as having the highest landing zone for training in the Continental United States of America (CONUS).[5]
See also
References
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External links
- Leadville Airport
- FAA Terminal Procedures for LXV, effective Error: Invalid time.
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for LXV
- AirNav airport information for KLXV
- ASN accident history for LXV
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures
- RAVCO