La Porte Municipal Airport | |
Iata: | LPO |
Icao: | KPPO |
Faa: | PPO |
Type: | Public |
Owner: | La Porte Airport Authority |
City-Served: | La Porte, Indiana |
Opened: | [1] |
Elevation-F: | 812 |
Elevation-M: | 247 |
Pushpin Map: | USA Indiana#USA |
Pushpin Relief: | yes |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Indiana |
Pushpin Label: | PPO |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
R1-Number: | 2/20 |
R1-Length-F: | 5,000 |
R1-Length-M: | 1,524 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
R2-Number: | 14/32 |
R2-Length-F: | 2,800 |
R2-Length-M: | 853 |
R2-Surface: | Asphalt |
Stat-Year: | 2005 |
Stat1-Header: | Aircraft operations |
Stat1-Data: | 15,416 |
Stat2-Header: | Based aircraft |
Stat2-Data: | 78 |
Footnotes: | Source: Federal Aviation Administration[2] |
La Porte Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located three miles (5 km) south of the central business district of La Porte, a city in La Porte County, Indiana, United States.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, La Porte Municipal Airport is assigned PPO by the FAA and LPO by the IATA. The airport's ICAO identifier is KPPO.[3]
La Porte Municipal Airport covers an area of 188acres which contains two asphalt paved runways: 2/20 at 5,000 x 75 ft (1,524 x 23 m) and 14/32 measuring 2,800 x 60 ft (853 x 18 m).
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 15,416 aircraft operations, an average of 42 per day: 99.7% general aviation and 0.3% air taxi. There are 78 aircraft based at this airport: 91% single-engine, 5% multi-engine and 4% jet.