Ely Municipal Airport

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For the airport in Ely, Nevada, see Ely Airport.

Coordinates: 47°49′28″N 091°49′51″W / 47.82444, -91.83083

Ely Municipal Airport
IATA: LYU – ICAO: KELO – FAA: ELO
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of Ely
Serves		Ely, Minnesota
Elevation AMSL		1,456 ft / 444 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
12/30	5,600	1,707	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			8,200
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Ely Municipal Airport (IATA: LYU, ICAO: KELO, FAA LID: ELO) is a city-owned public-use airport located four miles (6 km) south of the central business district of Ely, a city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Ely Municipal Airport is assigned ELO by the FAA and LYU by the IATA^[2] (which assigned ELO to Eldorado, Misiones, Argentina^[3]).

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Ely Municipal Airport covers an area of 560 acres (227 ha) and contains one runway designated 12/30 with a 5,600 x 100 ft. (1,707 x 30 m) asphalt surface. For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2006, the airport had 8,200 aircraft operations, an average of 22 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% air taxi.^[1]