Delano Municipal Airport

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Delano Municipal Airport
4 September 1994
IATA: none – ICAO: KDLO – FAA: DLO
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of Delano
Location		Delano, California
Elevation AMSL		314 ft / 96 m
Coordinates		35°44′44″N 119°14′11″W / 35.74556, -119.23639
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
14/32	5,651	1,722	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			19,000
Based aircraft			44
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Delano Municipal Airport (ICAO: KDLO, FAA LID: DLO) is a public airport located two miles (3 km) southeast of the central business district of Delano, a city in Kern County, California, United States. It is owned by the City of Delano.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Delano Municipal Airport is assigned DLO by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[2]

1 Facilities and aircraft
2 History
3 See Also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Delano Municipal Airport covers an area of 546 acres (221 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (14/32) measuring 5,651 x 75 ft. (1,722 x 23 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending January 23, 2006, the airport had 19,000 aircraft operations, an average of 52 per day, all of which were general aviation. There are 44 aircraft based at this airport: 68% single engine, 5% multi-engine and 27% helicopters.^[1]

[edit] History

The airfield was opened in April 1940. During World War II the airfield was known as Delano Army Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces Fourth Air Force. With the end of the war, the base was declared excess to requirements and returned to civil control.