Porter County Regional Airport | |
Iata: | VPZ |
Icao: | KVPZ |
Faa: | VPZ |
Type: | Public |
Owner: | Porter County Municipal Airport Authority |
Location: | Valparaiso, Indiana |
Opened: | [1] |
Elevation-F: | 770 |
Elevation-M: | 235 |
Coordinates: | 41.4539°N -87.0072°W |
Website: | www.VPZ.org |
Pushpin Map: | USA Indiana#USA |
Pushpin Relief: | yes |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Indiana |
Pushpin Label: | VPZ |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
R1-Number: | 9/27 |
R1-Length-F: | 7,001 |
R1-Length-M: | 2,134 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
R2-Number: | 18/36 |
R2-Length-F: | 4,001 |
R2-Length-M: | 1,220 |
R2-Surface: | Asphalt |
Stat1-Header: | Aircraft operations (2013) |
Stat1-Data: | 69,888 |
Stat2-Header: | Based aircraft (2017) |
Stat2-Data: | 146 |
Footnotes: | Source: Federal Aviation Administration[2] |
Porter County Regional Airport (formerly Porter County Municipal Airport)[3] is a public use airport one mile (1.6 km) southeast of the central business district of Valparaiso, a city in Porter County, Indiana, United States. The Porter County Municipal Airport Authority owns the airport.
Porter County Regional Airport covers 718acres at an elevation of 770 feet (235 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 9/27 is 7,001 by 150 feet (2,134 x 46 m) and 18/36 is 4,001 by 75 feet (1,220 x 23 m).
For period ending December 31, 2013, the airport had 69,888 aircraft operations, an average of 191 per day: 97% general aviation, 2% air taxi and 1% military. In January 2017, there were 146 aircraft based at this airport: 128 single-engine, 7 multi-engine, 6 jet, 4 helicopter and 1 ultralight.