Airport type Public Serves Ely, Minnesota 12/30 5,596 Code LYU | Owner City of Ely Elevation AMSL 1,456 ft / 444 m 5,596 1,706 Elevation 444 m | |
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Ely Municipal Airport (IATA: LYU, ICAO: KELO, FAA LID: ELO) is a public airport located in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States, four miles south of the city of Ely, which owns the airport.
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Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but Ely Municipal Airport is ELO to the FAA and LYU to the IATA (Eldorado, Misiones, Argentina has IATA code ELO.)
Facilities
The airport covers 560 acres (230 ha); it has one runway, 12/30, which is 5,596 x 100 ft (1,706 x 30 m) with an asphalt surface. For the year ending May 31, 2014 the airport had 8,200 aircraft operations, an average of 22 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% air taxi. In January 2017, there were 14 aircraft based at this airport: 13 single-engine and 1 multi-engine.