La Porte Municipal Airport (Indiana)

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Coordinates: 41°34′21″N 086°44′04″W / 41.5725, -86.73444

La Porte Municipal Airport
IATA: LPO – ICAO: KPPO – FAA: PPO
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		La Porte Airport Authority
Serves		La Porte, Indiana
Elevation AMSL		812 ft / 247 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
2/20	5,000	1,524	Asphalt
14/32	2,800	853	Asphalt
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations			15,416
Based aircraft			78
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

La Porte Municipal Airport (IATA: LPO, ICAO: KPPO, FAA LID: PPO) is a city-owned public-use airport located three miles (5 km) south of the central business district of La Porte, a city in La Porte County, Indiana, United States.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, La Porte Municipal Airport is assigned PPO by the FAA and LPO by the IATA. The airport's ICAO identifier is KPPO.^[2]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

La Porte Municipal Airport covers an area of 188 acres (76 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 2/20 at 5,000 x 75 ft. (1,524 x 23 m) and 14/32 meassuring 2,800 x 60 ft. (853 x 18 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 15,416 aircraft operations, an average of 42 per day: 99.7% general aviation and 0.3% air taxi. There are 78 aircraft based at this airport: 91% single-engine, 5% multi-engine and 4% jet.^[1]