Millard Airport (Nebraska) Explained

41.1961°N -96.1122°W

Millard Airport
Iata:MIQ
Icao:KMLE
Faa:MLE
Type:Public
Owner:Omaha Airport Authority
City-Served:greater Omaha, Nebraska
Elevation-F:1,051
Elevation-M:320
Pushpin Map:USA Nebraska#USA
Pushpin Relief:yes
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of airport in Nebraska / United States
Pushpin Label:MLE
Pushpin Label Position:left
R1-Number:12/30
R1-Length-F:3,801
R1-Length-M:1,159
R1-Surface:Concrete
Stat-Year:2021
Stat1-Header:Aircraft operations (year ending 9/20/2021)
Stat1-Data:24,000
Stat2-Header:Based aircraft
Stat2-Data:125
Footnotes:Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Millard Airport is a public airport seven miles (11 km) southwest of the central business district of Omaha, a city in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States. It is owned and operated by the Omaha Airport Authority, who also owns the main airport of Omaha, Eppley Airfield.

Although most US airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Millard Airport is assigned MLE by the FAA and MIQ by the IATA (which assigned MLE to Malé International Airport on Hulhulé Island in the Malé Atoll of the Maldives).[2] [3]

Facilities and aircraft

Millard Airport covers an area of 165acres which contains one asphalt-paved runway (12/30) measuring 3,801 x 75 ft (1,159 × 23 m). For the 12-month period ending September 20, 2021, the airport had 24,000 aircraft operations, an average of 66 per day: 94% general aviation, 6% air taxi and <1% military. There was at the time 125 aircraft based at this airport: 115 single-engine, 9 multi-engine, and 1 glider.

See also

References

  1. , effective September 7, 2023
  2. http://gc.kls2.com/airport/MIQ Great Circle Mapper: MIQ / KMLE – Omaha, Nebraska (Millard Airport)
  3. http://gc.kls2.com/airport/MLE Great Circle Mapper: MLE / VRMM – Malé, Hulhulé, Maldives

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