Clovis Regional Airport Explained

Clovis Regional Airport
Iata:CVN
Icao:KCVN
Faa:CVN
Type:Public
Owner:City of Clovis
Elevation-F:4,216
Elevation-M:1,285
Website:Clovis Regional Airport
Coordinates:34.4253°N -103.0792°W
Pushpin Map:USA New Mexico#USA
Pushpin Relief:yes
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of airport in New Mexico / United States
Pushpin Label:CVN
Pushpin Label Position:left
R1-Number:4/22
R1-Length-F:7,200
R1-Surface:Asphalt
R2-Number:12/30
R2-Length-F:5,697
R2-Surface:Asphalt
R3-Number:8/26
R3-Length-F:2,442
R3-Surface:Turf
Stat-Year:2019
Stat1-Header:Aircraft operations
Stat1-Data:24,648
Stat2-Header:Based aircraft
Stat2-Data:56
Footnotes:Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Clovis Regional Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) east of the central business district of Clovis, a city in Curry County, New Mexico, United States. The facility opened in April, 1959 and is mostly used for general aviation, but is also served by one commercial airline. Current scheduled passenger service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. The airport was previously known as Clovis Municipal Airport but underwent a name change to Clovis Regional Airport in 2021 when it was upgraded to Part 121 status.

It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation airport (the commercial service category requires at least 2,500 enplanements per year).[2]

Facilities and aircraft

Clovis Regional Airport covers an area of 1,480 acres (599 ha) at an elevation of 4216feet above mean sea level. It has three runways, two of which have asphalt surfaces: 4/22 is 7200feetby150feetft (byft) and 12/30 is 5697feetby150feetft (byft). It also has one turf runway designated 8/26 which measures 2442feetby75feetft (byft).

For the 12-month period ending February 28, 2019; the airport had 24,648 aircraft operations, an average of 68 per day: 85% general aviation, 7% military and 8% air taxi. At that time there were 56 aircraft based at this airport: 73% single-engine, 14% multi-engine, 11% jet, and 2% helicopter.

Airline and destinations

The Denver Air Connection service is currently being operated with Embraer ERJ-145 regional jet aircraft.[3]

Historical airline service

Initially, all airline service to Clovis had been operated via the current Cannon Air Force Base (CVS). Continental Airlines, the main airline serving Clovis, transferred its service to the Clovis Municipal Airport in 1959.

As Continental continued to evolve into a major air carrier, in 1963 the airline then transferred all of their Clovis service as well as its services to other smaller cities in New Mexico to Trans-Texas Airways (TTa). Trans-Texas basically operated the same services previously flown by Continental with flights to Albuquerque and Dallas Love Field originally reverting to DC-3 aircraft but later upgrading to Convair 240 prop aircraft followed by Convair 600 turboprops with the airline referring to the latter aircraft as the "Jet Powered TTa Silver Cloud 600".[4] According to the August 1968 Trans-Texas system timetable, the airline was operating all of its flights from Clovis with Convair 600 propjets with four departures every weekday including nonstop service to Albuquerque, Lubbock, TX and Santa Fe, NM as well as direct no change of plane service to Abilene, TX, Big Spring, TX and Dallas Love Field.[5] TTa then changed its name to Texas International Airlines (TI) in 1969 and for a brief period during the late 1970s, TI introduced 85-seat Douglas DC-9-10 jet service to Clovis. This was the first time Clovis had jet service, which was operated via Cannon in order to accommodate the DC-9s. However, in 1978, Texas International then reverted to once again using Convair 600 propjets via the Clovis Municipal Airport (CVN) for all of its flights with service only being operated nonstop to Albuquerque.

As Texas International was now growing into a larger all-jet airline, TI discontinued its Clovis flights in early 1979 and service was transferred to two smaller commuter airlines, Air Midwest and Crown Aviation. Crown had started service at Clovis two years prior with flights operated with twin prop Piper aircraft to Albuquerque and Lubbock but then went out of business in 1980. Air Midwest operated 17-seat Swearingen Metroliner propjets with flights to Albuquerque, Amarillo, and Wichita, KS. Mesa Airlines began serving Clovis in 1985 using Beechcraft 99 commuter turboprops followed by Beechcraft 1900C propjets on flights to Albuquerque. However, Air Midwest discontinued their service shortly afterwards. Mesa continued to serve the city for 20 years until 2005 when service was replaced by Great Lakes Aviation which operated flights to Albuquerque as well as a flight to Amarillo and Denver using Beechcraft 1900D turboprops. The flight to Amarillo was later dropped and all service was briefly shifted to a Clovis - Santa Fe - Denver route in 2012 before Great Lakes ended all flights on January 31, 2014. Clovis was without any airline service until July 2014 when Boutique Air inaugurated three daily nonstop flights to Dallas/Ft. Worth using 8-seat Pilatus PC-12 aircraft via a federal Essential Air Service contract.[6] In August 2018, Boutique Air upgraded the aircraft used to multi-engine, nine-seat Beechcraft Super King Air model 350s. Boutique Air's EAS contract ended on May 1, 2020, at which time Key Lime Air dba Denver Air Connection began two daily flights to Denver using Fairchild Dornier 328JET regional jet aircraft.[7] In late 2021, Denver Air Connection added a daily flight to Dallas/Fort Worth while reducing flights to Denver from two to one per day. The airline also upgraded their aircraft to a 50-seat Embraer ERJ-145 regional jet.

Statistics

Year! style="text-align:right;"
2008 [9] 2009 [10] 2010 [11] 2011 [12] 2012 [13] 2013[14] 2014[15] 2015[16] 2016[17] 2017[18] 2018[19] 2019[20] 2020[21]
Enplanements2,4192,0282,1652,0331,6941,3841,9524,7994,8545,0534,7505,3352,643
Change5.54%16.16%6.76%6.10%16.67%18.30%41.04%145.85%1.15%4.10%6.00%12.3%50.46%
AirlineGreat Lakes AirlinesGreat Lakes AirlinesGreat Lakes AirlinesGreat Lakes AirlinesGreat Lakes AirlinesGreat Lakes AirlinesBoutique AirBoutique AirBoutique AirBoutique AirBoutique AirBoutique AirDenver Air
Destination(s)AlbuquerqueAlbuquerqueAlbuquerqueAlbuquerqueAlbuquerqueLiberal----PuebloDallasDallasDallasDallasDallasDallasDenver

Passenger enplanements in 2021: 7,545, 2022: 13,028, 2023: 14,000.

Other sources

External links

Notes and References

  1. . Federal Aviation Administration. Effective April 5, 2012.
  2. Web site: 2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A . PDF, 2.03 MB . National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems . Federal Aviation Administration . October 4, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120927084535/http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/reports/media/2011/npias_2011_appA.pdf . 2012-09-27 .
  3. Web site: CVN Clovis RGNL Airport (CVN/KCVN) .
  4. https://www.timetableimages.com/i-t/ti6603a.jpg
  5. https://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/ti1/tt68/tt68-05.jpg
  6. Timetables from the various airlines that have served Clovis, NM
  7. Albuquerque Journal May 5, 2020
  8. Web site: Clovis, NM: Clovis Municipal (CVN). February 2020. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), U.S. Department of Transportation. May 25, 2020.
  9. Web site: 2008 Primary, Non-primary Commercial Service, and General Aviation Airports with Enplanements (by State). December 18, 2009. CY 2008 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data. Federal Aviation Administration. PDF, 1.0 MB.
  10. Web site: 2009 Primary, Non-primary Commercial Service, and General Aviation Airports (by State). November 23, 2010. CY 2009 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data]. Federal Aviation Administration. PDF, 891 KB.
  11. Web site: 2010 Primary, Non-primary Commercial Service, and General Aviation Airports (by State). October 4, 2011. CY 2010 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data]. Federal Aviation Administration. PDF, 189 KB.
  12. Web site: 2011 Enplanements at Primary, Non-primary Commercial Service, and General Aviation Airports (by State). October 9, 2012. CY 2011 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data]. Federal Aviation Administration.
  13. Web site: 2012 Enplanements at All Airports (Primary, Non-primary Commercial Service, and General Aviation) by State and Airport. October 31, 2013. CY 2012 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data]. Federal Aviation Administration.
  14. Web site: All Airports with CY 2013 Enplanements. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20141020024545/http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy13-all-enplanements.pdf . 2014-10-20 . May 25, 2020.
  15. Web site: Calendar Year 2014 Enplanements by State. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20150701190855/http://www.faa.gov:80/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy14-all-enplanements.pdf . 2015-07-01 .
  16. Web site: Calendar Year 2015 Enplanements by State. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20160927121614/http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy15-all-enplanements.pdf . 2016-09-27 .
  17. Web site: Calendar Year 2016 Final Revenue Enplanements at All Airports. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20171201032959/https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy16-all-enplanements.pdf . 2017-12-01 .
  18. Web site: Calendar Year 2017 Final Revenue Enplanements at All Airports. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20181017082115/https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy17-all-enplanements.pdf . 2018-10-17 .
  19. Web site: Calendar Year 2018 Final Revenue Enplanements at All Airports. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20191017132654/https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy18-all-enplanements.pdf . 2019-10-17 .
  20. Web site: Calendar Year 2019 Final Revenue Enplanements at All Airports. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210815165241/https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy20-all-enplanements.pdf . 2021-08-15 .
  21. Web site: Calendar Year 2020 Final Revenue Enplanements at All Airports. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210815165241/https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy20-all-enplanements.pdf . 2021-08-15 .

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