Meadow Lake Airport is a public use

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s (16 mi, 26 km) northeast of the

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, a city in El Paso County,

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. It is privately owned by the Meadow Lake Airport Association, Inc. Meadow Lake is the largest pilot owned airport in the State of Colorado. Meadow Lake Airport went in service on November 1, 1967 and is a

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reliever airport for Colorado Springs. There are several aviation related businesses on the airfield including flying schools and aircraft maintenance facilities. In 2010 the airport was approved for an FAA grant to provide an

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(automated weather observation system). The system has been installed, and it was certified by the FAA on October 21, 2010. A change of FAA identifier from 00V to FLY (ICAO: KFLY) took effect on January 14, 2011. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter

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, this airport is assigned FLY by the FAA, but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned FLY to

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Facilities and aircraft

Meadow Lake Airport covers an area of 757

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s (306 ha) at an

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of 6,878 feet (2,096 m) above

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. It has three

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s: 15/33 is 6,001 by 60 feet (1,829 x 18 m) with an asphalt surface; 8/26 is 2,126 by 35 feet (648 x 11 m) with an asphalt/gravel surface; 16/34 is 5,001 by 200 feet (1524 x 60 m) with an turf surface. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2018, the airport had 67,500 aircraft operations, an average of 185 per day: 70%

and 30%

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. At that time there were 392 aircraft based at this airport: 339 single-

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, 22 multi-engine, 6

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, 18

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, and 7

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Accidents and incidents

On December 7, 2006, a Piper Archer crashed into a tree while attempting to land at the airport. The pilot suffered minor injuries. On April 3, 2022, a Piper Cherokee 235 crashed at Meadow Lake Airport sending three people to the hospital.

References

External links

* Official sites
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kFLY.us

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Facilities and aircraft

Accidents and incidents

See also

References

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