Erie Municipal Airport is an
airport
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in
Weld County, Colorado
Weld County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 328,981. The county seat is Greeley, Colorado, Greeley.
Weld County comprises the Greeley, CO Metropolitan Stati ...
, United States.
It is owned by the
Town of Erie and located three
nautical mile
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s (6
km) south of its
central business district
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.
This airport was included in the
National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems
The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) is an inventory of U.S. aviation infrastructure assets. NPIAS was developed and now maintained by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
It identifies existing and proposed airports tha ...
for 2011–2015, which
categorized it as a ''
general aviation
General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations with the exception of commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services ...
'' facility. It was formerly a private airport called Tri-County Airport.
The airport is at the southwestern corner of Weld County, bordering
Boulder County
Boulder County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado of the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 330,758. The most populous municipality in the county and the county seat is Boulder.
Boulder County comprises t ...
to the west and the
City and County of Broomfield to the south. This particular part of Broomfield was in
Adams County prior to the creation of Broomfield County in 2001. The airport is on the north side of
State Highway 7 (
Baseline Road) about west of
I-25
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. Adjacent to the airport is the Erie Airpark subdivision, a residential area designed for private-plane commuters.
Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter
location identifier
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for the
FAA
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and
IATA
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, this airport is assigned EIK by the FAA
but has no designation from the IATA
[
] (which assigned EIK to
Yeysk
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,
Russia
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).
[
]
Facilities and aircraft
Erie Municipal Airport covers an area of 115
acres (47
ha) at an
elevation
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of 5,130 feet (1,564 m) above
mean sea level
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For a data set, the ''arith ...
. It has one
runway
According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt, concrete, ...
designated 15/33 with a
concrete surface measuring 4,700 by 60 feet (1,433 x 18 m).
A former runway designed 9/27, now closed, had an
asphalt
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surface measuring 2,250 by 50 feet (686 x 15 m).
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2011, the airport had 95,000
general aviation
General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations with the exception of commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services ...
aircraft operations, an average of 260 per day. At that time there were 188 aircraft based at this airport: 88% single-
engine
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Available energy sources include potential energy (e.g. energy of the Earth's gravitational field as exploited in hydroelectric power gene ...
, 5% multi-engine, 4%
helicopter
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, 3%
ultralight
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, <1%
jet, and <1%
glider
Glider may refer to:
Aircraft and transport Aircraft
* Glider (aircraft), heavier-than-air aircraft primarily intended for unpowered flight
** Glider (sailplane), a rigid-winged glider aircraft with an undercarriage, used in the sport of gliding
...
.
References
External links
Erie Municipal Airportat Town of Erie website
Erie Municipal Airport (EIK)at
Colorado DOT airport directory
Vector Air the
fixed-base operator
A fixed-base operator (FBO) is an organization granted the right by an airport to operate at the airport and provide aeronautical services such as fueling, hangaring, tie-down and parking, aircraft rental, aircraft maintenance, flight instruction ...
(FBO)
Aerial image as of October 1999from
USGS
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''
The National Map
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Airports in Colorado
Erie, Colorado
Transportation buildings and structures in Weld County, Colorado