Livermore Municipal Airport Explained

Livermore Municipal Airport
Faa:	LVK
Iata:	LVK
Icao:	KLVK
Type:	Public
Owner-Oper:	City of Livermore
Location:	Livermore, California
Elevation-F:	400
Pushpin Map:	USA California#USA
Pushpin Mapsize:	250
Pushpin Label:	LVK
Pushpin Label Position:	right
Pushpin Relief:	yes
R1-Number:	7L/25R
R1-Length-F:	5,253 x 100
R1-Surface:	Asphalt
R2-Number:	7R/25L
R2-Length-F:	2,699 x 75
R2-Surface:	Asphalt
H1-Number:	H1
H1-Length-F:	24 x 22
H1-Surface:	Asphalt
Stat-Year:	2018
Stat1-Header:	Based aircraft
Stat1-Data:	425
Stat2-Header:	Aircraft operations
Stat2-Data:	148,153
Footnotes:	Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Livermore Municipal Airport is three miles west of Livermore, California, in Alameda County, California. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021 categorized it as a regional reliever facility.^[2]

The airport has no scheduled airline service; the closest commercial airports are Oakland International Airport and San Jose International Airport. In the 1976-1977 OAG the regional airline California Air Commuter had scheduled service listed at Livermore, using Piper Navajos.

Facilities

Livermore Municipal Airport covers at an elevation of 400 feet (122 m). It has two asphalt runways:

7L/25R is 5,253 by 100 feet (1,601 × 30m). Is approved for instrument approaches.
7R/25L is 2,699 by 75 feet (823 × 23m). It was built in 1985 and is used mainly for training.^[3]

The airport has one asphalt helipad: H1 is .

In the year ending May 1, 2018 the airport had 148,153 aircraft operations, average 424 per day: 98% general aviation, 1% air taxi, <1% airline and <1% military. In September 2018, 461 aircraft were based at this airport: 417 single-engine, 33 multi-engine, 6 jet, and 5 helicopter.

Besides the 8400ft2 terminal building,^[4] built in 2015, there are nearly 400 aircraft storage hangar units, a corporate-style hangar building containing of space and an aircraft storage shelter.

Expansion plans

In 2021 KaiserAir filed a letter of intent to expand to Livermore Municipal Airport:

Phase One: Concrete apron (293,200 square feet), terminal building 5,000 square feet), fuel storage, self- service avgas fuel station, vehicle parking lot and airfield infrastructure improvements
Phase Two: Hangar complex (64,000 square feet), 18 rectangular 60' x60' hangars
Phase Three: Two-story office building and hangar complex (38,000 square feet) and the addition of Boeing 737 operations
Phase Four: Ground service equipment maintenance building (4,000 square feet) and two t-hangar complexes (60,000 square feet)^[5]

In 2022, local government officials said that it appeared that KaiserAir was "not moving forward" with their originally proposed project.^[6]

Accidents and incidents

On February 25, 2021, a private Mooney M20 aircraft crashed onto a car on a nearby freeway overpass. No one was injured, but both the airplane and the car suffered substantial damage.^[7]

External links

Notes and References

, effective September 13, 2018.
Web site: List of NPIAS Airports. https://web.archive.org/web/20200327004330/https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/reports/media/NPIAS-Report-2017-2021-Appendix-A.pdf . 2020-03-27. FAA.gov. Federal Aviation Administration. 3 April 2022. 21 October 2016. 16.
Web site: History of the Livermore Airport . 2018-09-28 . 2013-01-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130120070344/http://www.cityoflivermore.net/civicax/filebank/documents/5727/ . dead .
Web site: Airport Administration Building OK'd in Livermore. 14 August 2012.
Web site: Meeting Minutes Livermore Airport Citizen's Group. 2021-09-21. Livermore Airport Noise. en.
News: Cierra Bailey . KaiserAir unlikely to proceed with proposed move to Livermore Airport . Pleasanton Weekly . 5 . 25 March 2022 . 2022-04-03 .
News: Jessica Schladebeck . Plane strikes car while making emergency landing on California overpass . New York Daily News . February 25, 2021 . 2022-12-30.