Lake Havasu City Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Lake Havasu City Airport


IATA = HII
ICAO = KHII
FAA = HII
type = Public
owner = Lake Havasu City
operator =
city-served = Lake Havasu City, Arizona
location =
elevation-f = 783
elevation-m = 239
website =
r1-number = 14/32
r1-length-f = 8,001
r1-length-m = 2,439
r1-surface = Asphalt
stat-year = 2006
stat1-header = Aircraft operations
stat1-data = 50,956
stat2-header = Based aircraft
stat2-data = 302
footnotes = Source: Federal Aviation AdministrationFAA-airport|ID=HII|use=PU|own=PU|site=00717.76*A, effective 2007-10-25]

Lake Havasu City Airport Airport codes|HII|KHII|HII, also known as Lake Havasu City Municipal Airport, is a city-owned public-use airport located six miles (10 km) north of the central business district of Lake Havasu City, in Mohave County, Arizona, United States.

The airport is mostly used for general aviation. Until May 5, 2007, scheduled service to Phoenix and Las Vegas was provided by Mesa Airlines, operating as US Airways Express [cite news
url=http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2007/04/02/daily32.html?from_rss=1
title=Mesa Air grounds Lake Havasu route
publisher=The Business Journal of Phoenix
date=April 5, 2007] (previously America West Express [PDF| [http://www.azdot.gov/aviation/library/MP_PDF/HII_MP_02.pdf Airport Master Plan, 1999] |1.12 MiB ] [PDF| [http://www.lhcaz.gov/csd/airportrates.pdf Cost Recovery Analysis, December 2005] |2.90 MiB ] ).

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 8,174 commercial passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2005 and 6,082 enplanements in 2006. [ [http://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraffic/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/ FAA Passenger Boarding Data] ] According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007-2011, Lake Havasu City Airport is classified as "commercial service - non-primary" because it has between 2,500 and 10,000 passenger boardings per year. [ [http://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraffic/airports/planning_capacity/npias/ FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems: 2007-2011] ]

Facilities and aircraft

Lake Havasu City Airport covers an area of 646 acres (261 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (14/32) measuring 8,001 x 100 ft (2,439 x 30 m).

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had 50,956 aircraft operations, an average of 139 per day: 93% general aviation, 4% air taxi, 3% scheduled commercial and <1% military. There are 302 aircraft based at this airport: 80% single engine, 14% multi-engine, 1% jet aircraft, 2% helicopters and 2% ultralights.

References

External links

* [http://www.lhcaz.gov/communtyservices.htm#airport Lake Havasu City Municipal Airport] at official city website
* [http://www.biplanerides.net/ Biplane Rides at Havasu]
* [http://www.azdot.gov/aviation/airports/airports_list.asp?FAA=HII Lake Havasu City Airport] at Arizona DOT web site
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*US-airport-ga|HII