Vance Brand Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | City of Longmont | ||||||||||
| Serves | Longmont, Colorado | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 5,055 ft / 1,541 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°09′51″N 105°09′49″W / 40.16417°N 105.16361°W | ||||||||||
| Website | longmontcolorado.gov/airport | ||||||||||
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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.
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]).
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]