Airport type Public Elevation AMSL 4,729 ft / 1,441 m 10,498 3,200 Elevation 1,441 m Serves Pueblo | Owner City of Pueblo 8R/26L 10,498 Code PUB Phone +1 719-553-2760 | |
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Address 31201 Bryan Cir, Pueblo, CO 81001, USA Profiles | ||
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Pueblo Memorial Airport (IATA: PUB, ICAO: KPUB, FAA LID: PUB) is a public airport located six miles east of Pueblo, in Pueblo County, Colorado, United States. It is primarily used for general aviation.
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- History
- Facilities
- Airline Service
- References
Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 4,345 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 5,192 in 2009 and 11,641 in 2010. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a non-primary commercial service airport based on enplanements in 2008/2009 (between 2,500 and 10,000 per year).
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History
Built in 1941 as the Pueblo Army Air Base, it was used as an advanced flying school to train B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator four engine heavy bomber crews. It was under the command of the United States Army Air Forces Second Air Force 360th Army Air Force Base Unit. Known bomb groups which trained or based at Pueblo were:
The history of the Air Base is preserved with the Pueblo Historical Aircraft Society and its Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum.
In 1948 it was handed over to the City of Pueblo. In the 1960s the main east-west runway (8/26) was extended from 6,000' to 10,000' to accommodate jet aircraft.
Today, Pueblo Memorial Airport is home of the United States Air Force Initial Flight Training (IFT) program, which began operations on October 1, 2006. Doss Aviation, under contract with the USAF, conducts flight training for between 1300 and 1700 USAF trainees annually.
Facilities
Pueblo Memorial Airport covers 3,872 acres (1,567 ha) at an elevation of 4,729 feet (1,441 m). It has three runways:
Runways 8R/26L and 17/35 are asphalt with a porous friction course overlay to improve surface drainage and increase aircraft braking action. Runway 8L/26R has a 3-4 inch asphalt overlay on 7 inches (180 mm) of Portland cement concrete.
In the year ending January 1, 2011 the airport had 182,119 aircraft operations, an average of 498 per day: 95% general aviation, 3% air taxi, <1% airline and 2% military. In March 2017, there were 128 aircraft based at this airport: 109 single-engine, 9 multi-engine, 8 jet, 1 helicopter and 1 glider.
Airline Service
Four airlines operated scheduled jet flights with mainline aircraft types into the airport in the past. The original Frontier Airlines (1950-1986) flew Boeing 727-200 and 737-200s to Denver, Trans World Airlines (TWA) Boeing 727-200s flew to St. Louis and America West Airlines Boeing 737-200s flew to Phoenix. Some of these flights stopped at Colorado Springs Airport en route. Allegiant Air operated McDonnell Douglas MD-80s non-stops to Las Vegas beginning in October 2010; however, this service was ended on April 8, 2012.
Prior to the advent of jet service at Pueblo, the original Frontier Airlines operated nonstop and direct flights to Denver and Santa Fe, NM with Convair 580 turboprops and flew direct to Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson and other cities in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. Central Airlines Convair 600 turboprops flew nonstop to Denver and Amarillo as well as direct to Kansas City and other cities in Kansas. The original Frontier Airlines acquired Central in October 1967. Continental Airlines served Pueblo in the early 1960s with Vickers Viscount four engine turboprops with service to Denver, Albuquerque, Santa Fe and El Paso. Later, Rocky Mountain Airways de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters and DHC-7 Dash 7s flew nonstop or direct to Denver. Rocky Mountain Airways later operated Continental Express service to Denver on behalf of Continental Airlines with ATR 42 and Beechcraft 1900 turboprops. Mesa Airlines flying as United Express on behalf of United Airlines also operated service to Denver with Beechcraft 1900 turboprops.
In early 2014 Great Lakes Airlines was the only passenger airline at Pueblo, flying Beechcraft 1900Ds to Denver. This service was replaced by SkyWest Airlines operating as United Express and flying 30-seat Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia turboprops to Denver on April 1, 2014. SkyWest briefly operated Bombardier CRJ-200 regional jet service on the route to Denver after the EMB-120 was retired from the fleet; however, SkyWest then ceased all service in the spring of 2015. Great Lakes airlines resumed service to Denver in 2016 in emb 120's.