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Spirit of St. Louis Airport is a public
airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surfac ...
located 17 miles (27 km) west of the
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of
St. Louis St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which ...
, in St. Louis County, Missouri, in the city of Chesterfield, United States. It is owned by St. Louis County and named after the famous ''
Spirit of St. Louis The ''Spirit of St. Louis'' (formally the Ryan NYP, registration: N-X-211) is the custom-built, single-engine, single-seat, high-wing monoplane that was flown by Charles Lindbergh on May 20–21, 1927, on the first solo nonstop transatlanti ...
'' aircraft.


Facilities and aircraft

Spirit of St. Louis Airport covers an area of and contains two parallel
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, ...
s: 8L/26R measuring 5,000 x 75 ft (1,524 x 23 m) and 8R/26L measuring 7,485 x 150  (2,281 x 46 m), an all-weather, ILS-equipped runway. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2017, the airport had 94,764 aircraft operations, an average of 260 per day: 86%
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 service ...
, 12%
air taxi An air taxi is a small commercial aircraft that makes short flights on demand. In 2001 air taxi operations were promoted in the United States by a NASA and aerospace industry study on the potential Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) ...
, 2% military and less than 1% commercial service. In March 2018, there were 394 aircraft based at this airport: 242 single-engine, 54 multi-engine, 78 jet and 20
helicopter A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attribute ...
s. In 2007, the airport finished a multimillion-dollar expansion project to add a parallel taxiway to the north of 8L/26R. This added land is currently available to lease with taxiway access. The Spirit of St. Louis Air Show returned to the airport, May 3–4, 2014, after being absent since 2007. It featured an interactive STEM Expo and a Veteran's Village. The US Navy
Blue Angels The Blue Angels is a flight demonstration squadron of the United States Navy.
headlined the event.


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Airports in Greater St. Louis Transportation buildings and structures in St. Louis County, Missouri {{Missouri-airport-stub