Livermore Municipal Airport is three miles west of

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(FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021 categorized it as a regional reliever facility. The airport has no scheduled airline service; the closest commercial airports are

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. In the 1976-1977 OAG the regional airline California Air Commuter had scheduled service listed at Livermore, using

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Facilities

Livermore Municipal Airport covers at an elevation of 400 feet (122 m). It has two

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runways: *7L/25R is 5,253 by 100 feet (1,601 × 30m). Is approved for

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es. *7R/25L is 2,699 by 75 feet (823 × 23m). It was built in 1985 and is used mainly for training. The airport has one asphalt helipad: H1 is . In the year ending May 1, 2018 the airport had 148,153 aircraft operations, average 424 per day: 98%

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, <1% airline and <1% military. In September 2018, 461 aircraft were based at this airport: 417 single-engine, 33 multi-engine, 6 jet, and 5

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. Besides the terminal building, built in 2015, there are nearly 400 aircraft storage hangar units, a corporate-style hangar building containing of space and an aircraft storage shelter.

Expansion plans

In 2021 KaiserAir filed a letter of intent to expand to Livermore Municipal Airport: * Phase One: Concrete apron ( 293,200 square feet), terminal building 5,000 square feet), fuel storage, self- service avgas fuel station, vehicle parking lot and airfield infrastructure improvements * Phase Two: Hangar complex ( 64,000 square feet), 18 rectangular 60' x60' hangars * Phase Three: Two-story office building and hangar complex ( 38,000 square feet) and the addition of

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operations * Phase Four: Ground service equipment maintenance building ( 4,000 square feet) and two t-hangar complexes ( 60,000 square feet) In 2022, local government officials said that it appeared that KaiserAir was "not moving forward" with their originally proposed project.

Accidents and incidents

*On February 25, 2021, a private Mooney M20 aircraft crashed onto a car on a nearby freeway overpass. No one was injured, but both the airplane and the car suffered substantial damage.

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