Little Falls/Morrison County Airport

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Little Falls/Morrison County Airport (Template:Comma separated entries), also known as Lindbergh Field, is a public airport located two miles (3 km) south of the central business district of Little Falls, a city in Morrison County, Minnesota, United States. It is owned by the City of Little Falls and Morrison County.[1]

The airport opened in May 1947 as the Little Falls Municipal Airport. In 1964, the city and Morrison County signed a joint powers agreement and changed its name to the Little Falls/Morrison County Airport. A newer terminal building was erected in 1996.[2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Little Falls/Morrison County Airport is assigned LXL by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.[3]

On July 9, 2019 A FAA Airport Improvement Program grant of $371,724 was announced to construct a taxiway.[4] On November 22, 2019, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it had awarded an Airport Improvement Program grant of $2.1 million to the Little Falls/Morrison County Airport-Lindbergh Field to construct a new runway.[2][5]

Facilities and aircraft

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For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2006, the airport had 22,450 aircraft operations, an average of 61 per day: 98% general aviation, 2% air taxi and <1% military. At that time there were 43 aircraft based at this airport: 96% single-engine, 2% helicopter and 2% ultralight.[1]

See also

References

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