| Prescott Municipal Airport Ernest A. Love Field |
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| IATA: PRC – ICAO: KPRC – FAA LID: PRC | |||
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner | City of Prescott | ||
| Serves | Prescott, Arizona | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 5,045 ft / 1,538 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 3R/21L | 7,616 | 2,321 | Asphalt |
| 3L/21R | 4,848 | 1,478 | Asphalt |
| 12/30 | 4,408 | 1,344 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2011) | |||
| Aircraft operations | 244,234 | ||
| Based aircraft | 239 | ||
| Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] | |||
Prescott Municipal Airport, Ernest A. Love Field[2] (IATA: PRC, ICAO: KPRC, FAA LID: PRC) is a city-owned public-use airport located seven nautical miles (8 mi, 13 km) north of the central business district of the City of Prescott, in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.[1] Love Field is mostly used for general aviation but is also served by Great Lakes Airlines, who possesses a code-share agreement with United and Frontier Airlines. This service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. Most of the traffic at PRC is training flights from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University but also includes training flights from prominent flight operations including Guidance Aviation and North-Aire.
This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year).[3] As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 5,816 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,[4] 11,668 enplanements in 2009, and 7,836 in 2010.[5]
The City of Prescott announced that passenger totals for 2009 were 11,690. Having reached over 10,000 boardings per year this will allow for the airport to get a million dollar grant each year for the next five years for airport improvement projects. This also prompted Great Lakes Airlines to add a second daily weekday flight to Denver.
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The airport is named to honor Ernest A. Love (1895–1918), First Lieutenant, United States Army Air Service. Love was born in New Mexico and raised in Prescott. He was a graduate of Prescott High School, and studied mechanical engineering at Stanford. He served in World War I and was shot down near Verdun, France on 16 September 1918, and died of his wounds as a prisoner of war a few days later. Lieutenant Love is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.[6]
Ernest A. Love Field covers an area of 760 acres (308 ha) at an elevation of 5,045 feet (1,538 m) above mean sea level. It has three asphalt paved runways: 3R/21L is 7,616 by 150 feet (2,321 x 46 m); 3L/21R is 4,848 by 60 feet (1,478 x 18 m); 12/30 is 4,408 by 75 feet (1,344 x 23 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending March 31, 2011, the airport had 244,234 aircraft operations, an average of 669 per day: 98% general aviation, 1% air taxi, <1% scheduled commercial, and <1% military. At that time there were 239 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single-engine, 11% multi-engine, 1% jet, 1% helicopter, and <1% glider.[1]
Airlines offering scheduled non-stop service from this airport:
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Great Lakes Airlines | Denver, Farmington, Los Angeles[7] |
| Carrier | Passengers (arriving and departing) |
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| Great Lakes |
10,190(100%)
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| Rank | City | Airport | Passengers |
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| 1 | Los Angeles, CA | Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) | 2,000 |
| 2 | Ontario, CA | Ontario International Airport (ONT) | 2,000 |
| 3 | Denver, CO | Denver International Airport (DEN) | 1,000 |
| 4 | Farmington, NM | Four Corners Regional Airport (FMN) | <1,000 |