Airport type Public Elevation AMSL 4,497 ft / 1,370.7 m 13/31 8,599 Code PVU Phone +1 702-830-5945 | Owner City of Provo 8,599 2,621 Elevation 1,371 m Serves Provo | |
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Address 3421 Mike Jense Pkwy, Provo, UT 84601, USA | ||
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Provo Municipal Airport (IATA: PVU, ICAO: KPVU, FAA LID: PVU) is a public airport two miles (3 km) west of Provo, in Utah County, Utah. The airport hosts Allegiant Air flights to four airports, one in Arizona and three in California - Phoenix/Mesa Gateway Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, San Diego International Airport and Oakland International Airport. It is the second busiest public airport in Utah by aircraft movements, with 172,000 aircraft operations in the year ending May 2007.
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Overview
The airport is used for general aviation and rarely had scheduled airline flights until June 2011 when Frontier Airlines began daily flights to Denver. Salt Lake City International Airport (about 40 miles (64 km) north) is the closest airport with numerous flights. (SkyWest Airlines flew to Provo from 1974-1975.)
Service to Denver on Frontier ended in January 2013. Allegiant Air began flights to Phoenix/Mesa in February 2013, and in March 2013 announced twice-weekly flights to Oakland International Airport beginning June 7, 2013. On July 4, 2013, it was announced that Allegiant Air would begin flying to Los Angeles International Airport beginning September 26, 2013. In June 2016, Allegiant Air announced it would begin flying to San Diego International Airport beginning September 28, 2016.
Having one fixed-base operator, the airport is frequently used for flight training and is home to flight schools, including one operated by Utah Valley University. In the last 6 months of 2011 the airport had 14,858 enplanements.
History
The airport's Air Traffic Control Tower opened in 2005. Previously, the airport was uncontrolled. When the control tower opened, the nearby airspace became Class D airspace over a radius of 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) around the airport and up to 7,000 feet (2,100 m) MSL (2500 feet AGL), with a circular cutout in the southern portion surrounding nearby Spanish Fork-Springville Airport, which is not Class D.
In anticipation of commercial passenger service, a new terminal area was built in early 2011 to house Transportation Security Administration equipment for passenger screening. As of August 2012, a millimeter wave full body scanner is in use.
Facilities
Provo Municipal Airport covers 869 acres (3.5 km2) and has two runways and two helipads: