Ernest A. Love Field

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Prescott Municipal Airport Ernest A. Love Field
IATA: PRC – ICAO: KPRC – FAA: PRC
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of Prescott
Location		Prescott, Arizona
Elevation AMSL		5,045 ft / 1,538 m
Coordinates		34°39′16″N 112°25′10″W / 34.65444, -112.41944
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
3R/21L	7,550	2,301	Asphalt
12/30	4,408	1,344	Asphalt
3L/21R	4,846	1,477	Asphalt
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations			272,855
Based aircraft			340
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Prescott Municipal Airport (IATA: PRC, ICAO: KPRC, FAA LID: PRC), also known as Ernest A. Love Field^[2] (not to be confused with Dallas Love Field), is a public airport located seven miles (11 km) north of the central business district of Prescott, a city in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.^[1]

Love Field is mostly used for general aviation but is also served by one commercial airline. Service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. Most of the traffic at PRC is training flights from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 5,020 commercial passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2005 and 3,780 enplanements in 2006.^[3] According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007-2011, Ernest A. Love Field is classified as commercial service - non-primary because it has between 2,500 and 10,000 passenger boardings per year.^[4]

Once again the FAA has selected Mesa Airlines to take over the flights from Great Lakes Airlines starting in July, 2007.^[5] Mesa Airlines will offer three flights daily, two to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, and the third to a new destination, Las Vegas McCarran International Airport. As of May 30, 2008 Scheduled service via Mesa Airlines has ended. Prescott has new scheduled service between Los Angeles (LAX) and Prescott, starting Sept 8, on Horizon Airlines, a subsidiary of Alaska Air Group. This will still leave a lapse in service between May 30 and Sept 8.

1 Facilities and aircraft
2 Airlines and destinations
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Ernest A. Love Field covers an area of 760 acres (308 ha) which contains three asphalt paved runways: 3R/21L measuring 7,550 x 150 ft. (2,301 x 46 m), 12/30 at 4,408 x 75 ft. (1,344 x 23 m) and 3L/21R is 4,846 x 60 ft. (1,477 x 18 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 272,855 aircraft operations, an average of 747 per day: 98% general aviation, 2% air taxi, <1% scheduled commercial (1) and <1% military. There are 340 aircraft based at this airport: 88% single engine, 8% multi-engine, 1% jet aircraft, 3% helicopters and <1% ultralights.^[1]